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Foltz, Anouschka ORCID: 0000-0001-5117-3225, Knopf, Karolin, Jonas, Kristina, Jaecks, Petra and Stenneken, Prisca . Evidence for robust abstract syntactic representations in production before age three. First Lang.. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1740-2344

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Abstract

This study investigated whether we can find reliable comprehension-to-production syntactic priming effects in children aged 2;0 to 2;11 and how phonological working memory and sentence production skills relate to the syntactic priming process. A finding of reliable syntactic priming effects would provide strong evidence that children's syntactic representations are abstracted over individual lexical items. To test children at this young age, they were primed with simple and early-acquired transitive (e.g., tickling (a) baby) and unergative intransitive (e.g., running) syntactic structures. Children aged 2;7 to 2;11, primed with alternating prime structures, revealed a reliable syntactic priming effect. In addition, phonological working memory (moderated by age) and sentence production skills positively affected transitive productions. Children aged 2;0 to 2;6, primed either with alternating or cumulative prime structures, showed no priming effect. Together, the data indicate that children have robust abstract syntactic representations for the tested structures before age three and that both phonological working memory and production skills relate to children's syntactic priming behavior, albeit in different ways.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Foltz, Anouschka UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5117-3225 UNSPECIFIED Knopf, Karolin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Jonas, Kristina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Jaecks, Petra UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stenneken, Prisca UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-344213
DOI:	10.1177/0142723720905919
Journal or Publication Title:	First Lang.
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1740-2344
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WORD-ORDER; WORKING-MEMORY; YOUNG-CHILDREN; LANGUAGE; ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE; VOCABULARY; DETERMINER; FREQUENCY; LEARN Multiple languages Psychology, Developmental; Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34421