Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals: Evidence for the role of word-order repetition.

Bernolet, Sarah; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Pickering, Martin J.

doi:10.1037/0278-7393.33.5.931

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“…Evidence of structural priming in both datives (Gries & Wulff, 2005;McDonough, 2006;Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007) and alternation in word order between adjective-noun phrases and relative clauses (Bernolet, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007) are found in previous research. McDonough and Machey (2008) elaborate that structural priming can promote the production of the developmentally advanced language structure and suppress the production of the alternative structure in their interlanguage, which is considered to be a potential role of structural priming.…”

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“…Divergence of findings, however, exists in present studies. Bernolet, Hartsuiker, and Pickering (2007) found that cross-linguistic priming occurred only when the L1 and L2 had similar word order, that is, greater within-language priming occurred than between-language priming. Thereby, we can conclude that there is no complete sharing of syntactic representation between L1 and L2.…”

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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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“…Some researches (Bernolet, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007;Loebell & Bock, 2003) found that in the process of the cross-linguistic syntactic priming, the word sequence could be activated, while other researches (Chen, Jia, Wang, Dunlap, & Shin, 2013;Shin & Christianson, 2009; argued that the word sequence could not be activated.…”

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A Review of the Syntactic Priming—A Research Method in Sentence Production

Feng¹,

Chen²,

et al. 2014

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The syntactic priming is not only a very important repetitive priming phenomenon, it is also important for studying the syntactic representation and the speech production mechanism. Since the priming is related to the selecting process of the target sentences, it is of serious requirement for both the experimental materials and paradigms. The main questions studied in the syntactic priming correlates with the construction, the syntactic hierarchy and the representation of verbs, etc. Mastering the syntactic priming's experimental paradigm and knowing the corresponding research questions would be of great significance to studying the syntactic representation and the syntactic teaching in the field of teaching Chinese as a second language.

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“…After the discovery of syntactic priming (also called structural persistence and structural priming) over 20 years ago, there have been numerous studies across a wide variety of populations. Syntactic priming has been the focus of studies with children (e.g., Garrod & Clark, 1993;Fisher, 2002;Tomasello, 2000), aphasiacs (e.g., Saffran & Martin, 1997), bilinguals (e.g., Bernolet, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007;Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007), and second/foreign language learners (e.g., Gries & Wulff, 2005;Kim & McDonough, 2008;McDonough, 2006). Bock (1986) reported the first study which specifically used structural priming to investigate the processing and representation of language structures.…”

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Syntactic Priming Effects between Modalities: A Study of Indirect Questions/Requests among Persian English Learners

Biria¹,

Ameri-Golestan²,

Antón-Méndez³

2010

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This study examines the impact of syntactic priming on production of indirect questions/requests by Persian learners of English as a foreign language. Eighty learners participated in two experiments investigating the impact of syntactic priming on oral production and the possibility of transfer of the priming effects to a different modality. Production Experiment showed that priming resulted in increased production of the target structure by the Experimental groups as compared with production by the Control groups. Transfer Experiment showed that the rate of production of the target structure remained significantly higher for participants in the Experimental groups.Keywords: Syntactic priming, Language production, Modality transfer IntroductionSyntactic priming refers to a tendency to produce or repeat a recently produced or heard structure (Bock, 1986) that is, the phenomenon by which processing of an utterance is facilitated by processing of another one which shares the same underlying syntactic structure. This facilitation can help understand the nature of syntactic representation (Branigan, 2007). After the discovery of syntactic priming (also called structural persistence and structural priming) over 20 years ago, there have been numerous studies across a wide variety of populations. Syntactic priming has been the focus of studies with children (e.g., Garrod & Clark, 1993;Fisher, 2002;Tomasello, 2000), aphasiacs (e.g., Saffran & Martin, 1997), bilinguals (e.g., Bernolet, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007), and second/foreign language learners (e.g., Gries & Wulff, 2005;Kim & McDonough, 2008;McDonough, 2006). Bock (1986) reported the first study which specifically used structural priming to investigate the processing and representation of language structures. In her study, speakers repeated prime sentences (transitive and dative structures) and afterwards described target pictures which were semantically unrelated to the prime sentences. The results showed that speakers tended to use an active description of the target picture after an active prime structure and a passive description after a passive prime structure. The same effect was observed with dative sentences. Pickering and Ferreira (2008) pointed out that the results of Bock's (1986) study reveal that priming happens automatically and is not related to specific communication purposes or prime-target relationships (Levelt & Kelter, 1982), or discourse factors such as register (Weiner & Labov, 1983).Bock's (1986) initial finding encouraged several researchers to investigate the nature of the phenomenon and its linguistic implications more in depth. Branigan, Pickering, Liversedge, Stewart, and Urbach (1995) concluded that syntactic priming can occur within production, within comprehension, and between comprehension and production. Within production, uttering particular syntactic forms might affect the production of subsequent utterances. For example, if a prime is produced that contains a double-object str...

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“…then, many others have evaluated the workings of structural persistence in all of these areas, expanding knowledge about the impact of structural persistence within and across an array of different languages (e.g., Cai et al 2011;Desmet and Declercq 2006;Pérez-Leroux et al 2009;Hartsuiker et al 2004;Salamoura and Williams 2007;Shin and Christianson 2009), about its manifestations in transfer (e.g., Hatzidaki et al 2011;Pyers and Emmorey 2008) and codeswitching (e.g., Kootstra et al 2012), about the representation of syntax in bilinguals (e.g., Bernolet et al 2007;Hartsuiker and Pickering 2008;Kantola and van Gompel 2011;Schoonbaert et al 2007), and about crosslinguistic similarities and differences in language structure (e.g., Arai 2012).…”

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Structural priming across languages

Bock

2013

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The work that Helga Loebell and I reported in 2003 was aimed at a hypothesis that once seemed far-fetched. The hypothesis was that fluent bilinguals would exhibit structural persistence between the languages they speak. The research itself was actually conducted by Loebell 15 years earlier for her master's degree at Michigan State University. It was motivated in part by Bock's findings about the consequences of structural priming (1986, 1989), along with data we had in hand that would eventually become Bock and Loebell (1990). The effort was prodigious. Loebell collected data in Germany during several summer "holidays" that were anything but holidays. She tracked down fluent German-English bilinguals from all over southeastern Michigan, traveling back and forth from East Lansing for uncounted hours of testing, chatting, and coffee drinking.We were as surprised as anyone that the bet paid off. The problem that faced us was publicizing the results. At the time, experimental approaches to language production were in a fragile infancy. There was virtually no research on structural persistence other than Bock's, and it was viewed with widespread skepticism, regarded by many as impossible in light of the obvious productivity of syntax. The implications of the phenomenon remained unappreciated. Moreover, the outcomes of Loebell's experiments seemed too tenuous to stand up against these obstacles, and we didn't try to publish or even present them. Until Pickering and Branigan (1998) replicated and extended Bock's findings in a different paradigm, and Hartsuiker and Kolk (1998) uncovered structural persistence in Dutch, it was easy to see the effects of structural priming as a scientifically marginal fluke.Then the picture changed. There were repeated replications and an emerging understanding of what was potentially afoot in an abstract structural mechanism that could support learning (e.g., Ferreira et al. 2008). There was increased interest in the psycholinguistics of bilingualism. And there was the opportunity to publish our research in Linguistics, offered by Daniel Glatz and Christiane von Stutterheim, and to speculate about how structural persistence might affect bilingual language use, language learning, language contact, and language change. Since

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Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals: Evidence for the role of word-order repetition.

Cited by 155 publications

References 52 publications

A Review of Second Language Structural Priming Research

A Review of the Syntactic Priming—A Research Method in Sentence Production

Syntactic Priming Effects between Modalities: A Study of Indirect Questions/Requests among Persian English Learners

Structural priming across languages

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