Robert J Hartsuiker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Hartsuiker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartsuiker |
| SIGNATURE | HARTSUIKER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3680-6765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On idle idols and ugly icons: Investigating lexical selection in typing through homophones
Disfluencies reflect a… uh… competition between response options: Evidence from a drift diffusion analysis
Do filled pauses serve a …um… communicative function? A comparison of self-directed and social speech
Some authors argue that filled pauses serve a communicative function in speech. The current study aims to test this function by analyzing the difference in filler-use in a self-directed and social speech condition. Additionally, the influence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) traits and stress on the difference in filler-use between the two conditions were examined. In the first condition, participants described a series of different tangrams to …
Revisiting the logic in language: The scope of each and every universal quantifier is alike after all
A doubly-quantified sentence like Every bear approached a tent is ambiguous: Did every bear approach a different tent, or did they approach the same tent? These two interpretations are assumed to be mentally represented as logical representations, which specify how the different quantifiers are assigned scope with respect to each other. Based on a structural priming study, Feiman and Snedeker (2016) argued that logical representations capture qua…
Individual differences in the acquisition of shared syntactic representations: A Re-Analysis of Studies Using an Artificial Language Learning Paradigm
The Role of Explicit Memory Across Second Language Syntactic Development: A Structural Priming Study
We tested whether second language (L2) learners rely more on explicit memory during structural priming at lower than at higher proficiency levels (Hartsuiker & Bernolet, 2017). We compared within-L2 priming with lexical overlap in 100 low and 100 high proficiency French L2 speakers under low versus high working memory load conditions induced with a letter series recall task presented between primes and targets. The high load condition would preve…
Planning scope in second language sentence production: Do bilingual speakers plan ahead more in L1 than in L2
Language production is incremental in nature; we tend to plan linguistic chunks prior to articulating the first word of the utterance. Researchers have acquired knowledge about how far ahead sentences are generally planned, but mostly in monolinguals or the speaker's first language (Allum & Wheeldon, 2007; Martin, Crowther, Knight, Tamborello II, & Yang, 2010; Wagner, Jescheniak, & Schriefers, 2010). It is unclear whether the scope of planning is…
The production preferences and priming effects of Dutch passives in Arabic/Berber–Dutch and Turkish–Dutch heritage speakers
Cross-linguistic structural priming effects suggest that bilinguals have shared or connected memory representations for similar syntactic structures. This predicts an influence of the production preferences of one language in the other language (Bernolet & Hartsuiker, 2018). We hypothesized that shared structures will lead to a facilitatory effect on production frequencies, whereas connected structures may sometimes lead to an inhibitory effect d…
Do structure predictions persevere to multilinguals’ other languages? Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming in comprehension
Many cross-language sentence processing studies showed structural priming, which suggests a shared representation across languages or separate but interacting representations for each language. To investigate whether multilinguals can rely on such representations to predict structure in comprehension, we conducted two visual-world eye-tracking priming experiments with Cantonese–Mandarin-English multilinguals. Participants were instructed to read …
The development of abstract syntactic representations in beginning L2 learners of Dutch
Comparing the cognate effect in spoken and written second language word production
Cognates – words that share form and meaning between languages – are processed faster than control words. However, is this facilitation effect merely lexical in nature or does it cascade to phonological/orthographic (i.e., sub-lexical) processes? This study compared cognate effects in spoken and typewritten production, which share lexical, but not sub-lexical processes. Dutch–English bilinguals produced English names for pictures representing Dut…
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)
Language of instruction affects language interference in the third language
Applied linguistic work claims that multilinguals’ non-native languages interfere with one another based on similarities in cognitive factors like proficiency or age of acquisition. Two experiments explored how trilinguals regulate control of native- and non-native-language words. Experiment 1 tested 46 Dutch–English–French trilinguals in a monitoring task. Participants decided if phonemes were present in the target language name of a picture, ph…
The role of L1 and L2 frequency in cross-linguistic structural priming: An artificial language learning study
We investigated L1 and L2 frequency effects in the sharing of syntax across languages (reflected in cross-linguistic structural priming) using an artificial language (AL) paradigm. Ninety-six Dutch speakers learned an AL with either a prepositional-object (PO) dative bias (PO datives appeared three times as often as double-object [DO] datives) or a DO dative bias (DOs appeared three times as often as POs). Priming was assessed from the AL to Dutc…
Delayed picture naming in the first and second language
Second language (L2) speakers produce speech more slowly than first language (L1) speakers. This may be due to a delay in lexical retrieval, but it is also possible that the delay is situated at later stages. This study used delayed picture naming to test whether late production stages (leading up to articulation) are slower in L2 than in L1. Dutch–English unbalanced bilinguals performed a regular and a delayed picture naming task in English and …
Monolingual and bilingual logical representations of quantificational scope: Evidence from priming in language comprehension
Do particle verbs share a representation with their root verbs? Evidence from structural priming
The development of shared syntactic representations in late L2-learners: Evidence from structural priming in an artificial language
Are there segmental and tonal effects on syntactic encoding? Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin
Proactive language control during bilingual sentence production
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: While evidence for proactive language control processes has been found during single word production, very little and conflicting evidence has been observed for such control processes during sentence production. So, the main goal of this study was to investigate whether proactive language control can occur during sentence production. Design/methodology/approach: To investigate proactive language con…
Articulation lost in space. The effects of local orobuccal anesthesia on articulation and intelligibility of phonemes
English norming data for 423 short animated action movie clips
The Role of Case Marking and Word Order in Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming in Late L2 Acquisition
Several studies found cross-linguistic structural priming with various language combinations. Here, we investigated the role of two important domains of language variation: case marking and word order, for transitive and ditransitive structures. We varied these features in an artificial language learning paradigm, using three different artificial language versions in a between-subjects design. Priming was assessed between Dutch (no overt case mar…
Foreignness or Processing Fluency? On Understanding the Negative Bias Toward Foreign-Accented Speakers
The extent to which negative bias toward foreign-accented speakers originates from social categorization (in-group/out-group categorization) and/or from processing fluency (ease in processing information) is not clear. Some have argued that accent first induces a social identity effect and that processing fluency later modifies the impact of this effect. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), this registered report tested this hypothesis, looking…
Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production: Evidence from structural priming in Italian
Syntactic Persistence in Dutch
Three experiments are reported that showed effects of “structure priming,” the tendency to repeat syntactic structure across successive sentences. These effects were demonstrated in a previously untested language, Dutch. All experiments studied spoken sentence production. Importantly, pre-experimental baselines were measured for all target structures in order to assess possible effects of frequency on the magnitude of priming effect. We obtained …
The interplay of meaning, sound, and syntax in sentence production
A discussion of modularity in language production processes, with special emphasis on processes for retrieving words and building syntactic structures for a to-be-uttered sentence, is presented. The authors' 1st goal was to assess the extent to which information processing is encapsulated between different processing stages. In particular, they assessed whether the input from one processing stage to the next is minimal and whether the flow of inf…
Late Bilinguals Share Syntax Unsparingly Between L1 and L2: Evidence From Crosslinguistically Similar and Different Constructions
Languages often use different constructions to convey the same meaning. For example, the meaning of a causative construction in English (Jen had her computer fixed) is conveyed using an active structure in Korean (Jen-NOM her computer-ACC fixed), and yet little is known about how bilinguals represent and process such constructions. The present study investigated whether late bilinguals develop shared or language-specific representations for cross…
Foreignness or Processing Fluency? On Understanding the Negative Bias Toward Foreign-Accented Speakers
The extent to which negative bias toward foreign-accented speakers originates from social categorization (in-group/out-group categorization) and/or from processing fluency (ease in processing information) is not clear. Some have argued that accent first induces a social identity effect and that processing fluency later modifies the impact of this effect. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), this registered report tested this hypothesis, looking…
Translation Methods and Experience: A Comparative Analysis of Human Translation and Post-editing with Students and Professional Translators
While the benefits of using post-editing for technical texts have been more or less acknowledged, it remains unclear whether post-editing is a viable alternative to human translation for more general text types. In addition, we need a better understanding of both translation methods and how they are performed by students as well as professionals, so that pitfalls can be determined and translator training can be adapted accordingly. In this articl…
Is a FAN Always FUN? Phonological and Orthographic Effects in Bilingual Visual Word Recognition
A visual semantic categorization task in English was performed by native English speakers (Experiment 1) and late bilinguals whose first language was Japanese (Experiment 2) or Spanish (Experiment 3). In the critical conditions, the target word was a homophone of a correct category exemplar (e.g., A BODY OF WATER—SEE; cf. SEA) or a word that differed from the correct exemplar by a phonological contrast absent in the bilinguals’ first language (e.…
The Role of Case Marking and Word Order in Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming in Late L2 Acquisition
Several studies found cross-linguistic structural priming with various language combinations. Here, we investigated the role of two important domains of language variation: case marking and word order, for transitive and ditransitive structures. We varied these features in an artificial language learning paradigm, using three different artificial language versions in a between-subjects design. Priming was assessed between Dutch (no overt case mar…
Verbal Self-Monitoring in the Second Language
Speakers monitor their own speech for errors. To do so, they may rely on perception of their own speech (external monitoring) but also on an internal speech representation (internal monitoring). While there are detailed accounts of monitoring in first language (L1) processing, it is not clear if and how monitoring is different in a second language (L2). Here, we ask whether L1 and L2 monitoring differ and, if so, where the differences lie. L1 and…
Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling
Collective nouns such as committee, family , or team are conceptually (and in English also syntactically) complex in the sense that they are both singular (“one”) and plural (“more than one”): they refer to a multiplicity that is conceptualized as a unity. In this article, which focuses on Dutch collective nouns, it is argued that some collective nouns are rather “one”, whereas others are rather “more than one”. Collective nouns are shown to be d…
The Role of Explicit Memory Across Second Language Syntactic Development: A Structural Priming Study
We tested whether second language (L2) learners rely more on explicit memory during structural priming at lower than at higher proficiency levels (Hartsuiker & Bernolet, 2017). We compared within-L2 priming with lexical overlap in 100 low and 100 high proficiency French L2 speakers under low versus high working memory load conditions induced with a letter series recall task presented between primes and targets. The high load condition would preve…
The development of abstract syntactic representations in beginning L2 learners of Dutch
Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production: Evidence from structural priming in Italian
Syntactic Persistence in Dutch
Three experiments are reported that showed effects of “structure priming,” the tendency to repeat syntactic structure across successive sentences. These effects were demonstrated in a previously untested language, Dutch. All experiments studied spoken sentence production. Importantly, pre-experimental baselines were measured for all target structures in order to assess possible effects of frequency on the magnitude of priming effect. We obtained …
Word order priming in written and spoken sentence production
The interplay of meaning, sound, and syntax in sentence production
A discussion of modularity in language production processes, with special emphasis on processes for retrieving words and building syntactic structures for a to-be-uttered sentence, is presented. The authors' 1st goal was to assess the extent to which information processing is encapsulated between different processing stages. In particular, they assessed whether the input from one processing stage to the next is minimal and whether the flow of inf…
Is Syntax Separate or Shared Between Languages?: Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Priming in Spanish-English Bilinguals
Much research in bilingualism has addressed the question of the extent to which lexical information is shared between languages. The present study investigated whether syntactic information is shared by testing if syntactic priming occurs between languages. Spanish-English bilingual participants described cards to each other in a dialogue game. We found that a participant who had just heard a sentence in Spanish tended to use the same type of sen…
Judgment of Disfluency in People who Stutter and People who do not Stutter: Results from Magnitude Estimation
Two experiments used a magnitude estimation paradigm to test whether perception of disfluency is a function of whether the speaker and the listener stutter or do not stutter. Utterances produced by people who stutter were judged as “less fluent,” and, critically, this held for apparently fluent utterances as well as for utterances identified as containing disfluency. Additionally, people who stutter tended to perceive utterances as less fluent, i…
The representation of lexical and syntactic information in bilinguals: Evidence from syntactic priming
Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling
Collective nouns such as committee, family , or team are conceptually (and in English also syntactically) complex in the sense that they are both singular (“one”) and plural (“more than one”): they refer to a multiplicity that is conceptualized as a unity. In this article, which focuses on Dutch collective nouns, it is argued that some collective nouns are rather “one”, whereas others are rather “more than one”. Collective nouns are shown to be d…
Syntactic priming persists while the lexical boost decays: Evidence from written and spoken dialogue
Is a FAN Always FUN? Phonological and Orthographic Effects in Bilingual Visual Word Recognition
A visual semantic categorization task in English was performed by native English speakers (Experiment 1) and late bilinguals whose first language was Japanese (Experiment 2) or Spanish (Experiment 3). In the critical conditions, the target word was a homophone of a correct category exemplar (e.g., A BODY OF WATER—SEE; cf. SEA) or a word that differed from the correct exemplar by a phonological contrast absent in the bilinguals’ first language (e.…
From language-specific to shared syntactic representations: The influence of second language proficiency on syntactic sharing in bilinguals
Sex Differences in Neurophysiological Activation Patterns During Phonological Input Processing: An Influencing Factor for Normative Data
Verbal Self-Monitoring in the Second Language
Speakers monitor their own speech for errors. To do so, they may rely on perception of their own speech (external monitoring) but also on an internal speech representation (internal monitoring). While there are detailed accounts of monitoring in first language (L1) processing, it is not clear if and how monitoring is different in a second language (L2). Here, we ask whether L1 and L2 monitoring differ and, if so, where the differences lie. L1 and…
The development of shared syntax in second language learning
According to Hartsuiker et al.'s (2004) shared-syntax account bilinguals share syntactic representations across languages whenever these representations are similar enough. But how does such a system develop in the course of second language (L2) learning? We will review recent work on cross-linguistic structural priming, which considered priming in early second language learners and late second language learners as a function of proficiency. We w…
Translation Methods and Experience: A Comparative Analysis of Human Translation and Post-editing with Students and Professional Translators
While the benefits of using post-editing for technical texts have been more or less acknowledged, it remains unclear whether post-editing is a viable alternative to human translation for more general text types. In addition, we need a better understanding of both translation methods and how they are performed by students as well as professionals, so that pitfalls can be determined and translator training can be adapted accordingly. In this articl…
The Role of Audiovisual Speech in the Early Stages of Lexical Processing as Revealed by the ERP Word Repetition Effect
Numerous studies suggest that audiovisual speech influences lexical processing. However, it is not clear which stages of lexical processing are modulated by audiovisual speech. In this study, we examined the time course of the access to word representations in long-term memory when they were presented in auditory-only and audiovisual modalities. We exploited the effect of the prior access to a word on the subsequent access to that word known as t…
Late Bilinguals Share Syntax Unsparingly Between L1 and L2: Evidence From Crosslinguistically Similar and Different Constructions
Languages often use different constructions to convey the same meaning. For example, the meaning of a causative construction in English (Jen had her computer fixed) is conveyed using an active structure in Korean (Jen-NOM her computer-ACC fixed), and yet little is known about how bilinguals represent and process such constructions. The present study investigated whether late bilinguals develop shared or language-specific representations for cross…
Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production: Evidence from structural priming in Italian
Articulation lost in space. The effects of local orobuccal anesthesia on articulation and intelligibility of phonemes
English norming data for 423 short animated action movie clips
The Role of Case Marking and Word Order in Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming in Late L2 Acquisition
Several studies found cross-linguistic structural priming with various language combinations. Here, we investigated the role of two important domains of language variation: case marking and word order, for transitive and ditransitive structures. We varied these features in an artificial language learning paradigm, using three different artificial language versions in a between-subjects design. Priming was assessed between Dutch (no overt case mar…
Foreignness or Processing Fluency? On Understanding the Negative Bias Toward Foreign-Accented Speakers
The extent to which negative bias toward foreign-accented speakers originates from social categorization (in-group/out-group categorization) and/or from processing fluency (ease in processing information) is not clear. Some have argued that accent first induces a social identity effect and that processing fluency later modifies the impact of this effect. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), this registered report tested this hypothesis, looking…
Language of instruction affects language interference in the third language
Applied linguistic work claims that multilinguals’ non-native languages interfere with one another based on similarities in cognitive factors like proficiency or age of acquisition. Two experiments explored how trilinguals regulate control of native- and non-native-language words. Experiment 1 tested 46 Dutch–English–French trilinguals in a monitoring task. Participants decided if phonemes were present in the target language name of a picture, ph…
The role of L1 and L2 frequency in cross-linguistic structural priming: An artificial language learning study
We investigated L1 and L2 frequency effects in the sharing of syntax across languages (reflected in cross-linguistic structural priming) using an artificial language (AL) paradigm. Ninety-six Dutch speakers learned an AL with either a prepositional-object (PO) dative bias (PO datives appeared three times as often as double-object [DO] datives) or a DO dative bias (DOs appeared three times as often as POs). Priming was assessed from the AL to Dutc…
Delayed picture naming in the first and second language
Second language (L2) speakers produce speech more slowly than first language (L1) speakers. This may be due to a delay in lexical retrieval, but it is also possible that the delay is situated at later stages. This study used delayed picture naming to test whether late production stages (leading up to articulation) are slower in L2 than in L1. Dutch–English unbalanced bilinguals performed a regular and a delayed picture naming task in English and …
Monolingual and bilingual logical representations of quantificational scope: Evidence from priming in language comprehension
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