Shared vs separate structural representations: Evidence from cumulative cross-language structural priming

被引:6
作者
Ahn, Danbi [1 ]
Ferreira, Victor S. [2 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, Neurobiol Language Dept, Wundtlaan 1, NL-6525 XD Nijmegen, Netherlands
[2] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Bilingualism; sentence production; cumulative structural priming; bilingual syntax; SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATIONS; WORD-ORDER; BILINGUALS; PERSISTENCE;
D O I
10.1177/17470218231160942
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
How do bilingual speakers represent the information that guides the assembly of words into sentences for their two languages? The shared-syntax account argues that bilinguals have a single, shared representation of the sentence structures that exist in both languages. Structural priming has been shown to be equal within and across languages, providing support for the shared-syntax account. However, equivalent levels of structural priming within and across languages could be observed even if structural representations are separate and connected, due to frequent switches between languages, which is a property of standard structural priming paradigms. Here, we investigated whether cumulative structural priming (i.e., structural priming across blocks rather than trial-by-trial), which does not involve frequent switches between languages, also shows equivalent levels of structural priming within- and cross-languages. Mixed results point towards a possibility that cumulative structural priming can be more persistent within- compared to cross-languages, suggesting a separate-and-connected account of bilingual structural representations. We discuss these results in terms of the current literature on bilingual structural representations and highlight the value of diversity in paradigms and less-studied languages.
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页码:174 / 190
页数:17
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