Cross-linguistic priming of syntactic hierarchical configuration information

Desmet, Timothy; Declercq, Mieke

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.007

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“…The findings of between-language priming studies (Desmet & Declercq, 2006;Loebell & Bock, 2003;Meijer & Fox Tree, 2003;Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007) have demonstrated that syntactic priming occurs cross-linguistically, which supports the shared-syntax account. Research of dative priming shows that cross-linguistic priming occurred in response to single-verb primes (Salamoura & Williams, 2006) and it was dependent on an overlap between constituent order and thematic roles (Salamoura & Williams, 2007).…”

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A Review of Second Language Structural Priming Research

王莉¹

2015

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Structural priming reveals a new horizon in the research of bilingual syntactic representations. It facilitates the interpretation of bilingual syntactic transfer and syntactic misuse. So structural priming in L2 (second language) is practically meaningful for L2 teaching and learning. This paper attempts to review the within-language and between-language priming, as well as interaction studies to examine how far research has delved into this field and suggestions for future research are provided.

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“…Another research conducted by Desmet and Declercq (2006) examines the occurrence of syntactic priming related to hierarchical tree configuration. Eighty-four university students participated in the relative clause attachment test via a sentence completion task.…”

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A Review of Second Language Structural Priming Research

王莉¹

2015

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“…Some accounts of syntactic priming claim that the tendency to repeat syntax from sentence to sentence has a strong lexical component (e.g., Pickering & Branigan, 1998;Scheepers, submitted); other accounts claim that syntax is recycled without necessary reference to either conceptual or lexical information (e.g. Bock & Loebell, 1990;Bock, Loebell, & Morey, 1992;Desmet & Declercq, 2006;Scheepers, 2003). 32 Independent of these theoretical differences, interactive properties of the distinct priming effects established at different production stages are largely unknown.…”

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Attention and syntax in sentence production: A critical review

Myachykov¹,

Garrod²,

Scheepers³

2009

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Abstract:People often speak about visually perceived events that unfold in real time. In doing so speakers regularly translate the details of the visual world they describe onto the grammatical properties of the sentences about it. For example, the speaker needs to map her constantly changing attentional state onto the syntactic plan of the produced sentences. The present paper briefly discusses what attention is, explores methods for the co-activation of attentional and syntactic operations during the production of visually-mediated sentences in languages with different syntactic properties, and reviews the evidence for a regular link between the speaker's choice of sentential structure and the distribution of the speaker's attention to the event's referents. Also, it discusses evidence for interactive properties of attentional and other types of priming on the speaker's syntactic choice. Based on reviewed literature, we conclude that attention plays a crucial role in directing lexical and grammatical choices in human discourse. At the same time, the organization of the language's grammar reciprocates this influence by constraining the extent to which the distribution of attention can affect the real-time syntactic choices. Finally, we discuss how attentional priming engages in complex interactions with other priming effects: it interacts with lexical priming but not with syntactic priming, supporting an encapsulated view of sentence formulation. Keywords:attention, syntax, word order, sentence production Résumé:On parle souvent des événements alors qu'on est en train de les percevoir visuellement. Les locuteurs doivent alors projeter les détails du monde visuel qu'ils sont en train de décrire sur les propriétés grammaticales des phrases qui le décrivent. . Ainsi, le locuteur doit répercuter les changements constants de son état attentionnel sur la structure syntaxique des phrases qu'il produit. Le présent article discute brièvement de ce qu'est l'attention, puis présente les méthodes pour observer la coactivation des opérations attentionnelles et syntaxiques lors de la production de phrases résultant d'explorations visuelles, dans des langues ayant des propriétés syntaxiques différentes. Nous passons ensuite en revue les arguments en faveur d'un lien entre le choix du locuteur quant à la structure de la phrase et le partage de son attention sur les référents de l'événement. Nous discutons également des données mettant en évidence les propriétés interactives de l'amorçage attentionnel et d'autres types d'amorçage sur les choix syntaxiques du locuteur. Sur la base de la littérature, nous concluons que l'attention joue un rôle fondamental dans les choix lexicaux et grammaticaux du locuteur, tandis que la grammaire de chaque langue détermine, à son tour, dans quelle mesure la distribution de l'attention peut affecter les choix syntaxiques en temps réel. Enfin, nous exposons comment l'amorçage attentionnel interagit avec d'autres effets d'amorçage : il interagit avec l'amorçage lexical mais pas avec l'amorçage synt...

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“…Similar to Desmet and Declercq (2006) In all experiments, the subjects were native-Dutch speaking Ghent University psychology students. They had learned French in primary school and English and German in secondary school.…”

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Cross-linguistic structural priming in multilinguals: Further evidence for shared syntax

Hartsuiker

Beerts

Desmet

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Journal of Memory and Language

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The experiments tested whether structural priming within a language differs from priming between languages and whether priming between a first and second language differs from priming between two different second languages.Experiment 1 tested priming of relative clause attachment from Dutch (the subjects' first language), French, or English (two second languages) to Dutch. Experiments 2 and 3 were similar but had respectively French and English as the target language. Experiment 4 tested dative priming from Dutch, English, and German (another second language) to English. Structural priming was always as strong within-as between-languages and priming between a first and a second language was always as strong as priming between two second languages. These findings support accounts that assume syntax is shared across languages.Keywords: Bilingualism; Multilingualism; Structural Priming; Sentence Production multilingual cross-linguistic priming 3 Worldwide it is the rule rather than the exception that people speak more than one language (Graddol, 2004;Grosjean, 1992); in some parts of the world most people even speak more than two languages. For instance, most people from the region of Flanders, Belgium, have Dutch as their first language (L1), but also know French, English and sometimes German as a second language (L2) 1 , which they typically started to learn towards the end of primary school, at the beginning of secondary school, and in the last years of secondary school respectively. Many studies on bilingualism have asked whether there are influences of L1 on processing an L2 (e.g., Thierry & Wu, 2007) or vice versa (e.g., Van Assche, Drieghe, Duyck, & Hartsuiker, 2009). Fewer studies have considered cross-language influences in speakers of more than two languages. However, multilingualism offers the possibility of comparing cross-linguistic influences between a first and second language with influences between two different second languages (see Lemhöfer, Dijkstra, & Michel, 2004;Van Hell & Dijkstra, 2002 for such studies in the lexical domain). This article will present such a comparison in the domain of sentence production in order to arbitrate between theories that assume syntactic representations are shared or separate across a multilingual's languages. Although most cognitive-psychological studies on multilingualism have focused on the representation or processing of words, there is an increasing interest in research on syntactic processes in bilingual sentence production (e.g., Hartsuiker, Pickering, & Veltkamp, 2004;Kootstra, Van Hell, & Dijkstra, 2010;Loebell & Bock, 2003; Meyer & Fox Tree, 2003). Most of these studies use the structural priming paradigm, which is based on the phenomenon that the choice out of two alternative syntactic structures (e.g., an active instead of a passive multilingual cross-linguistic priming 4 sentence) is influenced by having recently processed a prime sentence with that specific structure (Bock, 1986). In a series of seminal studies, Bock and colleagues ruled out that st...

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Cross-linguistic priming of syntactic hierarchical configuration information

Cited by 118 publications

References 85 publications

A Review of Second Language Structural Priming Research

A Review of Second Language Structural Priming Research

Attention and syntax in sentence production: A critical review

Cross-linguistic structural priming in multilinguals: Further evidence for shared syntax

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