Chapter 7. What can syntactic priming tell us about crosslinguistic influence?

Serratrice, Ludovica

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“…Several possible reasons could be advanced. It could be that structural overlap is an important factor in CLI (Serratrice, 2013(Serratrice, , 2022 and that bilinguals tend to use constructions that work in both languages (Filipović, 2019(Filipović, , 2022. But this does not explain why older children did not do so, and insights from work on crosslinguistic priming may shed light.…”

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Tusun

2023

Bilingualism

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This study explores the implications of Talmy's (2000) motion event typology and its subsequent articulations in relation to Slobin's (1996, 2006) thinking-for-speaking hypothesis for the early successive bilingual acquisition of Uyghur (verb-framed) and Mandarin Chinese (equipollently-framed). Specifically, it examines how 4-, 6-, 8- and 10-year-old bilingual children acquire motion expressions in their L1 and L2 respectively, and how cross-linguistic influence shapes their L2 acquisition process. Results show that, in their L1 Uyghur, bilinguals follow general developmental trajectories observed for children acquiring verb-framed languages. While sensitive to the equipollent Chinese system from early on, due to L1 and other factors, bilinguals fully converge on the Chinese pattern only at age 10, a feat in place in monolinguals from age 3. Our findings highlight that bilingual children do eventually come to develop language-specific thinking-for-speaking patterns in their L2, but they traverse a distinct developmental path.

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Tusun

2023

Bilingualism

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“…More specifically, we examined two accounts of CLI, i.e., the structural overlap hypothesis (cf. Hulk, 2017), and the coactivation account (Nicoladis, 2006) as reconceptualized within the framework of crosslinguistic priming (e.g., Engemann, 2022a; Serratrice, 2022). We analyzed two aspects of our data: (1) the number of semantic components speakers typically express within a motion construction, and (2) how the components are syntactically packaged.…”

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“…Hervé at al. 2016; Engemann, 2022a; Serratrice, 2016, 2022). One implication of this idea for our discussion concerns the issue of the longevity of CLI.…”

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

Tusun

2023

Lang. cogn.

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Talmy’s motion event typology has served as a fruitful framework for exploring bilingual cognition and language use. The present study extends this line of research to the bilingualism situation of an underrepresented Turkic language, i.e., Modern Uyghur, and Mandarin Chinese, and it does so by focusing on a relatively understudied type of motion, i.e., caused motion. The two languages are genetically and typologically distinct, and yet they share verb-framing as an important lexicalization pattern in encoding motion. This study, therefore, investigated whether and to what extent this structural overlap contributes to crosslinguistic influence in Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion. Thirty Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals’ verbalizations were analyzed with respect to the number of semantic components expressed and the way they were syntactically packaged. Results were compared with relevant monolingual data, which showed that Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals displayed a strong L1 to L2 influence in syntactic packaging by overusing the verb-framed strategy in Mandarin Chinese. However, further comparisons with previous research on Uyghur–Chinese child and adult bilinguals’ motion construal revealed that, while structural overlap is a key factor motivating crosslinguistic influence, a coherent explanation of this phenomenon must consider more general principles of bilingual language processing and use.

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“…Many studies show that identical structures can also be primed across languages in bilinguals (for review, Van Gompel & Arai, 2018). In the recent literature on child bilinguals, several researchers have proposed that cross-linguistic priming is not only a method to study cross-linguistic influence but denotes a mechanism that underlies crosslinguistic influence in L2 production generally (e.g., Nicoladis, 2006;Serratrice, 2013Serratrice, , 2016Serratrice, , 2022; see also Bosch & Unsworth, 2021). According to these accounts, the alternating use of two languages activates shared nodes of both languages that compete for selection in production or comprehension.…”

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“…According to these accounts, the alternating use of two languages activates shared nodes of both languages that compete for selection in production or comprehension. Such effects have been described as the consequence of the global increase in L1 activation when bilinguals switch between languages (Serratrice, 2016(Serratrice, , 2022 or of the mutual activation of lexical candidates which then spreads to the grammatical constructions in which these words are embedded (e.g., Nicoladis, 2012).…”

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Asymmetrical effects of cross-linguistic structural priming on cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners

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Jackson

2023

Applied Psycholinguistics

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The present study investigates current proposals that priming is a mechanism of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilinguals by aiming to boost CLI through priming. In two cross-linguistic structural priming experiments with less-proficient adolescent (Study 1) and more highly proficient adult German-English learners (Study 2), we assess whether structural priming enhances CLI for well-formed, dispreferred, and ungrammatical structures. L2 learners in both studies showed CLI in their production, in particular for structures with word order overlap. They also exhibited short-term cross-linguistic priming of grammatical L1-L2 word orders in L2 English, which extended to longer-term priming among the more highly proficient learners in Study 2. However, there was no evidence that cross-linguistic priming increased the use of dispreferred or ungrammatical L1-based word orders in L2 English in either study. Rather, the overall production of these word orders decreased. Together, these results suggest that, while cross-linguistic priming leads learners to increase the use of shared, grammatical L1-L2 word orders, it leads to the inhibition of non-shared ungrammatical structures in L2 production. We conclude that priming has asymmetrical effects on CLI of grammatical and ungrammatical L1-based structures in the L2.

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Chapter 7. What can syntactic priming tell us about crosslinguistic influence?

Cited by 5 publications

References 108 publications

Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

Asymmetrical effects of cross-linguistic structural priming on cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners

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