Katherine Messenger

List of John Benjamins publications in which Katherine Messenger is involved.

Title

Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications

Edited by Katherine Messenger

Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 31] 2022. viii, 226 pp.

Articles

Serratrice, Ludovica, Marta Wesierska, Vanessa Cieplinska and Katherine Messenger 2025 Teenage kicks: Exploring shared syntax through bidirectional crosslinguistic priming: Evidence from Polish-English bilingual adolescents and adults Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article

A developmental account of how bilinguals organise syntactic knowledge is crucial to understanding their mental representations. While adult studies suggest that syntactic representations can be shared across languages, evidence from child and adolescent heritage speakers remains limited and… read more

Messenger, Katherine 2022 Chapter 1. Introduction to syntactic priming in language acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications, Messenger, Katherine (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Messenger, Katherine, Holly Branigan, Leone Buckle and Laura Lindsay 2022 Chapter 4. How does syntactic priming experience support language development? Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications, Messenger, Katherine (ed.), pp. 57–82 | Chapter

Syntactic priming effects are argued to reflect the mechanisms that underlie language acquisition. This chapter explores the predictions of key models for such learning via syntactic priming and discusses the extent to which behavioural evidence is consistent with these predictions.… read more