%0 Book Section
%T Using two-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone law of comparative judgments for code-switching research
%A Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez
%A Luis Lopez
%A M. Carmen Parafita
%A C. Alejandro Parraga
%B Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
%D 2018
%F Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez2018
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%X 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-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.
%K two-alternative forced choice and Thurstone's law
%K acceptability judgment
%K code-switching
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.16030.sta
%P 67-97