Priming and the Lexical Boost Effect across Development in a Structurally Biased Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alina Kholodova (0000-0001-6457-9785, University of Kaiserslautern, corresponding author), Michal Peters (0000-0002-4977-8708, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust), Caroline F Rowland (0000-0002-8675-8669, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Gunnar Jacob (0000-0003-0882-5667, University of Mannheim), Shanley E M Allen (0000-0002-5421-6750, University of Kaiserslautern) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages8040264 |
| OpenAlex | W4388557028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 71 |
The present study investigates the developmental trajectory of abstract representations for syntactic structures in children. In a structural priming experiment on the dative alternation in German, we primed children from three different age groups (3-4 years, 5-6 years, 7-8 years) and adults with double object datives (Dora sent Boots the rabbit) or prepositional object datives (Dora sent the rabbit to Boots). Importantly, the prepositional object structure in German is dispreferred and only rarely encountered by young children. While immediate as well as cumulative structural priming effects occurred across all age groups, these effects were strongest in the 3- to 4-year-old group and gradually decreased with increasing age. These results suggest that representations in young children are less stable than in adults and, therefore, more susceptible to adaptation both immediately and across time, presumably due to stronger surprisal. Lexical boost effects, in contrast, were not present in 3- to 4-year-olds but gradually emerged with increasing age, possibly due to limited working-memory capacity in the younger child groups
Age groups · Biology · Contrast (vision · Developmental psychology · German · Language development · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Priming (agriculture · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |