TY - JOUR
T1 - Syntactic processing in Korean-English bilingual production
T2 - Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming
AU - Shin, Jeong Ah
AU - Christianson, Kiel
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - A structural priming experiment investigated whether grammatical encoding in production consists of one or two stages and whether oral bilingual language production is shared at the functional or positional level [Bock, J. K., Levelt, W. (1994). Language production. Grammatical encoding. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 945-984). San Diego, CA: Academic Press] by manipulating syntactic structure and argument order in structurally parallel Korean and English dative sentences. The results revealed that structural priming across languages can occur when both languages share syntactic structure, independent of argument order. Specifically, cross-linguistic argument-order-independent structural priming in canonical Korean postpositional and English prepositional dative structures was observed, providing evidence for shared bilingual syntactic processing occurring at the abstract, functional level within a two-stage grammatical encoding process. This is the first demonstration of cross-linguistic priming of argument-order-independent structural information.
AB - A structural priming experiment investigated whether grammatical encoding in production consists of one or two stages and whether oral bilingual language production is shared at the functional or positional level [Bock, J. K., Levelt, W. (1994). Language production. Grammatical encoding. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 945-984). San Diego, CA: Academic Press] by manipulating syntactic structure and argument order in structurally parallel Korean and English dative sentences. The results revealed that structural priming across languages can occur when both languages share syntactic structure, independent of argument order. Specifically, cross-linguistic argument-order-independent structural priming in canonical Korean postpositional and English prepositional dative structures was observed, providing evidence for shared bilingual syntactic processing occurring at the abstract, functional level within a two-stage grammatical encoding process. This is the first demonstration of cross-linguistic priming of argument-order-independent structural information.
KW - Argument-order-independent structural priming
KW - Bilingual language processing
KW - Grammatical encoding
KW - Language production
KW - Structural priming
KW - Syntactic priming
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67349223649&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.03.011
DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.03.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 19394593
AN - SCOPUS:67349223649
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 112
SP - 175
EP - 180
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
IS - 1
ER -