@inproceedings{bawa-etal-2018-accommodation,
    title = "Accommodation of Conversational Code-Choice",
    author = "Bawa, Anshul  and
      Choudhury, Monojit  and
      Bali, Kalika",
    editor = "Aguilar, Gustavo  and
      AlGhamdi, Fahad  and
      Soto, Victor  and
      Solorio, Thamar  and
      Diab, Mona  and
      Hirschberg, Julia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching",
    month = jul,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Melbourne, Australia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W18-3210/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-3210",
    pages = "82--91",
    abstract = "Bilingual speakers often freely mix languages. However, in such bilingual conversations, are the language choices of the speakers coordinated? How much does one speaker{'}s choice of language affect other speakers? In this paper, we formulate code-choice as a linguistic style, and show that speakers are indeed sensitive to and accommodating of each other{'}s code-choice. We find that the saliency or markedness of a language in context directly affects the degree of accommodation observed. More importantly, we discover that accommodation of code-choices persists over several conversational turns. We also propose an alternative interpretation of conversational accommodation as a retrieval problem, and show that the differences in accommodation characteristics of code-choices are based on their markedness in context."
}