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. 2020 Jul 17;11:1699. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01699

TABLE 2.

Number and proportion of noun phrase utterances across languages in the PR-CMT corpus.

NP Type Example N Proportion
Spanish NPs el carro 437 0.498
English NPs the car 268 0.305
Mixed NPs el car 173 0.197
Total 878 1.00

For mixed NPs, all but three tokens (“la balloon,” “la guitar,” “the rueda” English: ballon, guitar, and wheel, respectively) were comprised of a Spanish masculine determiner and an English noun, replicating the well-documented asymmetry with respect to grammatical gender and switching direction (Poplack, 1980; Valdés Kroff, 2016; Beatty-Martínez et al., 2018; Casielles-Suárez, 2018; cf. Blokzijl et al., 2017).