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In:Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications
Edited by Katherine Messenger
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 31] 2022
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Chapter 7
What can syntactic priming tell us about crosslinguistic influence?

 | University of Reading | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Published online: 29 September 2022
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Abstract
When a child is simultaneously exposed to two different languages, they will need to parse the incoming input, and map form to meaning to create mental representations that are consistent with those of the adult speakers of those languages. How exactly bilingual children do this, the extent to which they develop linguistic systems that are independent of each other, and the place of crosslinguistic influence, are still the object of much current research. Syntactic priming is a promising methodology to test different hypotheses about the (relative) interdependence of bilingual children’s linguistic systems. Starting with a historical perspective on the one vs. two systems hypothesis in bilingual development, I consider the limits of crosslinguistic influence, then I make a proposal on how co-activation and syntactic priming could explain crosslinguistic influence.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • References
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