Syntactic priming in language acquisition : representations, mechanisms and applications / edited by Katherine Messenger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Messenger, Katherine, editor.

Series:

Trends in Language Acquisition Research

Trends in Language Acquisition Research ; v.31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Children--Language.

Children.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

Summary:

The collection will be a useful resource for researchers from diverse areas of the field of child language, particularly those with a focus on grammatical development.

Contents:

Intro

Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to syntactic priming in language acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications

What is syntactic priming and how does it relate to language acquisition research?

Syntactic priming in typically-developing monolingual children

Syntactic priming in multilingual populations

Syntactic priming in atypically-developing populations

Conclusion

References

Chapter 2. Syntactic priming and child language competence: A critical review and methodological considerations for future research

What is structural priming?

Theoretical contributions of structural priming in child language acquisition: The nature of early syntactic representations

Other theoretical contributions

Comprehension vs. production priming

Structural priming as implicit learning and the lexical boost

Structural priming and individual differences

Conclusions and future directions

Chapter 3. Beyond the English passive: What we can learn from syntactic priming about L1 acquisition by exploring other structures and languages

Introduction

The nature of abstract syntactic representations

Interfaces

Input frequency effects in first language acquisition

Acknowledgements

Chapter 4. How does syntactic priming experience support language development?

1. Introduction

2. Syntactic priming as implicit learning

3. The timecourse of syntactic priming effects in children

4. Between-group differences in the magnitude of priming

5. Between-individual variation in syntactic priming

6. The locus of implicit learning

7. Methodological issues

8. Conclusion

Funding

References.

Chapter 5. Sticking to what we know: Methodological limitations to generalizability

2. Lack of structural variability

3. Lack of comprehension priming studies

4. Addressing both concerns: PP-attachment priming study

5. Additional limitations

6. Conclusions

Chapter 6. Structural priming in bilingual children

Cross-linguistic priming in bilingual adults: Evidence for shared syntax

Within- and between-language priming in young bilinguals: Evidence for shared syntax

Model of bilingual language production and remaining questions

Structural priming and language experience

Methodological features of priming studies with bilingual children

Future directions for priming studies with bilingual children

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

One system vs. two: Independent and autonomous?

How different is bilingual development from monolingual development and what is the role of CLI?

Crosslinguistic influence: Contexts and constraints

Mental representations and CLI

Language co-activation and CLI: Processing mechanisms

Crosslinguistic structural priming in adult bilinguals

Crosslinguistic priming in younger bilinguals and mechanisms of CLI

Factors affecting structural entrenchment and the likelihood of CLI

Questions (not yet) answered and future directions

Chapter 8. Syntactic priming and alignment in children with autism spectrum disorder

What is ASD?

Grammatical abilities in autistic children

Imitation in autistic children

Perspectives on syntactic priming in ASD

Methods for studying syntactic priming in ASD

Syntactic priming effects in autistic children

Individual differences in autistic children's syntactic priming

Conclusions.

Funding

Chapter 9. Syntactic priming as a window to investigate grammatical learning in non-typical populations

2. Clinical markers: Why is structural priming a good candidate

3. Grammatical learning in children with DLD: The contribution of syntactic priming

4. Structural priming in aphasia: A rationale for the adaptation

5. Conclusions and future directions

Chapter 10. Syntactic priming and language intervention for children with grammatical deficits

The role of input in grammatical intervention with children

Properties of syntactic priming applicable to intervention

Frequency is crucial

Abstract categories are appropriate targets

Targets at the clause level are appropriate

Separation between the child's and adult's use of the target structure is important

Implicit learning as the ideal outcome

Interpreting the "lexical boost"

Listening to the target structure

Acquiring the target structure through conversation

Targeting less frequent structures

Variations in the priming paradigm that are applicable to intervention

Strengthening the adult form relative to its competitors

The benefits of high lexical verb variability

The use of paired priming

Other variations of priming that are applicable to language intervention

A research agenda for syntactic priming based on intervention practices

How "under control" must the target structure be?

Does feedback change the process?

The source of the primes

Does a progression from narrow to broad constitute a change in mechanisms?

Summary

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Messenger, Katherine Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition

ISBN:

9789027257376