The priming of word order in second language German

• CARRIE N. JACKSON ^[1] ; HELENA T. RUF ^[2]
  1. [1] Pennsylvania State University

     Pennsylvania State University

     Borough of State College, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] University of Minnesota

     University of Minnesota

     City of Minneapolis, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Applied psycholinguistics, ISSN 0142-7164, Vol. 38, Nº 2, 2017, págs. 315-345
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present study investigates the priming and subsequent production of word order variation (adverb–verb–subject vs. subject–verb–adverb order) with temporal phrases (Experiment 1) and locative phrases (Experiment 2) among intermediate English–German second language learners. Participants exhibited comparable short-term priming for adverb-first word order in both experiments. In the initial baseline phase, participants produced adverb-first sentences with temporal phrases but not locative phrases, and only temporal phrases led to significant long-term priming, as measured in a postpriming phase. This suggests that at lower proficiency levels, long-term, but not short-term, priming may depend on the stability of specific semantically constrained constructions rather than more generalized syntactic representations and that such cumulative effects may be shaped by preferences for a particular construction in the native language.