Research Symposium

BIO

Isabella is a first-generation student from Fort Myers, Florida, in her second year at Florida State University, majoring in Linguistics and Languages. Isabella is bilingual and has a passion for learning languages. She hopes to use her passion for language to facilitate connections with new people and cultures.

Ambiguous relative clause attachment and language mode in bilingual Spanish-English speakers

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to examine the relationship between ambiguous relative clause attachment and language mode in bilingual Spanish-English speakers. Many single language studies have indicated that particular languages, like English (Cuetos & Don C. , 1988), Spanish (Carreiras & Clifton, 1993), and Greek (Papadopoulou & Clahsen, 2003), the users of these languages are more likely to use specific attachment preferences. For example, English is typically low attachment, while Spanish and Greek is usually high attachment. This is can be typically attributed in single language studies to the variance in cross-linguality (Grillo & Costa, 2014). However, more recent Bilingual studies have introduced new uninvestigated elements, like code- switching, that suggest that there are more factors at play (Couto & Gullberg, M., 2019). Overall, this project aims to examine these factors as it relates to the interpretation of the ambiguous relative clause, by
Spanish-English Bilinguals.

Keywords: linguistics language bilingualism psychology