Evidence for Robust Abstract Syntactic Representations in Production before Age Three

Autor/inn/en	Foltz, Anouschka; Knopf, Karolin; Jonas, Kristina; Jaecks, Petra; Stenneken, Prisca
Titel	Evidence for Robust Abstract Syntactic Representations in Production before Age Three
Quelle	In: First Language, 41 (2021) 1, S.3-20 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Foltz, Anouschka)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723720905919
Schlagwörter	Syntax; Phonology; Short Term Memory; Toddlers; Language Acquisition; Language Skills; Priming; Task Analysis; Speech Communication; German; Language Usage; Responses; Language Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonologie; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Aufgabenanalyse; Deutscher; Sprachgebrauch; Language test; Sprachtest
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01