Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task
This study presents an Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) conducted with Latinx1 Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States. We take a social approach to the AJT by contextualizing code-switching (CS) within the context of reggaetón music by adding experimental labels to sentences and examine ho...
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| author | Salvatore Callesano Rodrigo Delgado Wenyue Ma Erin Trybulec Gabriella Reyes |
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| description | This study presents an Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) conducted with Latinx1 Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States. We take a social approach to the AJT by contextualizing code-switching (CS) within the context of reggaetón music by adding experimental labels to sentences and examine how the results vary according to enjoyment and frequency of listening to reggaetón music. Results from mixed-effects regression models show effects of sentence grammaticality and frequency of listening to reggaetón. Results do not show effects of the reggaetón label on the CS sentences, however we find higher ratings for ungrammatical sentences and lower ratings for grammatical sentences than previously shown in the AJT literature. This study highlights the importance of the social context of code-switching when investigating acceptability judgments. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f7df9e2e9f4f4459a8e591d1efa6f1c72025-01-08T05:10:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Communication2297-900X2025-01-01910.3389/fcomm.2024.14902991490299Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment TaskSalvatore Callesano0Rodrigo Delgado1Wenyue Ma2Erin Trybulec3Gabriella Reyes4Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United StatesDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United StatesSchool of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United StatesDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United StatesDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United StatesThis study presents an Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) conducted with Latinx1 Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States. We take a social approach to the AJT by contextualizing code-switching (CS) within the context of reggaetón music by adding experimental labels to sentences and examine how the results vary according to enjoyment and frequency of listening to reggaetón music. Results from mixed-effects regression models show effects of sentence grammaticality and frequency of listening to reggaetón. Results do not show effects of the reggaetón label on the CS sentences, however we find higher ratings for ungrammatical sentences and lower ratings for grammatical sentences than previously shown in the AJT literature. This study highlights the importance of the social context of code-switching when investigating acceptability judgments.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1490299/fullcode-switchingreggaetónAcceptability Judgment Taskperceptual labelsbilingualism |
| spellingShingle | Salvatore Callesano Rodrigo Delgado Wenyue Ma Erin Trybulec Gabriella Reyes Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task Frontiers in Communication code-switching reggaetón Acceptability Judgment Task perceptual labels bilingualism |
| title | Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task |
| title_full | Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task |
| title_fullStr | Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task |
| title_short | Contextualizing code-switching: testing the effects of reggaetón labels and listening frequency in an Acceptability Judgment Task |
| title_sort | contextualizing code switching testing the effects of reggaeton labels and listening frequency in an acceptability judgment task |
| topic | code-switching reggaetón Acceptability Judgment Task perceptual labels bilingualism |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1490299/full |
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