@Inbook{HansStadthagen-Gonzalez2018,
author="Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez
and Luis Lopez
and M. Carmen Parafita
and C. Alejandro Parraga",
chapter="Using two-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone law of comparative judgments for code-switching research",
title="Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism",
year="2018",
pages="67--97",
optkeywords="two-alternative forced choice and Thurstone{\textquoteright}s law",
optkeywords="acceptability judgment",
optkeywords="code-switching",
abstract="This article argues that 2-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone{\textquoteright}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-alternative 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.",
optnote="NEUROBIT; no menciona",
optnote="exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2994), last updated on Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:45:36 +0100",
doi="10.1075/lab.16030.sta"
}