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The role of L1 and L2 frequency in cross-linguistic structural priming : an artificial language learning study
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Abstract
We investigated L1 and L2 frequency effects in the sharing of syntax across languages (reflected in cross-linguistic structural priming) using an artificial language (AL) paradigm. Ninety-six Dutch speakers learned an AL with either a prepositional-object (PO) dative bias (PO datives appeared three times as often as double-object [DO] datives) or a DO dative bias (DOs appeared three times as often as POs). Priming was assessed from the AL to Dutch (a strongly PO-biased language). There was weak immediate priming for DOs, but not for POs in both bias conditions. This suggests that L1, but not AL, frequency influenced immediate priming. Furthermore, the DO bias group produced 10% more DOs in Dutch than the PO bias group, showing that cumulative priming was influenced by AL frequency. We discuss the different effects of L1 and AL frequency on cross-linguistic structural priming in terms of lexicalist and implicit learning accounts.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Bilingualism : language and cognition. - Cambridge, 1998, currens
Publication
Cambridge : 2021
ISSN
1366-7289 [print]
1469-1841 [online]
DOI
10.1017/S1366728921000110
Volume/pages
24 :4 (2021) , p. 767-778
Article Reference
PII S1366728921000110
ISI
000669500800015
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E-only publicatie
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