A linguist analyzes a corpus of transcribed speech from bilingual speakers; which phenomenon requires disambiguation of code-switching using contextual information?

💡 Explanation

Syntactic priming is weaker across languages because structural preferences differ between languages, therefore, a bilingual corpus requires disambiguation strategies to correctly identify the intended structure rather than assuming consistent priming effects across languages. Semantic satiation and lexical frequency are less relevant in this specific context.

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