Which mechanism explains why children exposed to code-switched input still acquire distinct grammatical systems?

💡 Explanation

Independent pathway syntactic activation explains how children can separate grammatical systems even when exposed to code-switching. Children develop separate neural pathways for each language's syntax because the consistent co-activation of specific syntactic rules within each language strengthens those independent pathways, therefore preventing unified restructuring, rather than resulting in shared representation.

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