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Using two-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone’s law of comparative judgments for code-switching research

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posted on 2022-03-16, 18:53 authored by Hans Stadthagen-González, Luis López, M Carmen Parafita Couto, C Alejandro Párraga
This article argues that 2-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone’s law of comparative judgments (Thurstone, 1927) are well suited to investigate code-switching competence by means of acceptability judgments. We compare this method with commonly used Likert scale judgments and find that the 2-alterna-tive forced choice task provides granular details that remain invisible in a Likert scale experiment. In order to compare and contrast both methods, we examined the syntactic phenomenon usually referred to as the Adjacency Condition (AC) (apud Stowell, 1981), which imposes a condition of adjacency between verb and object. Our interest in the AC comes from the fact that it is a subtle feature of English grammar which is absent in Spanish, and this provides an excellent springboard to create minimal code-switched pairs that allow us to formulate a clear research question that can be tested using both methods.

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Stadthagen-González, H., López, L., Parafita Couto, M. C.Párraga, C. A. (2017). Using two-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone’s law of comparative judgments for code-switching research. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 8(1), 67-97. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.16030.sta

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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1879-9264

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