NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Segaert, Katrien; Weber, Kirsten; Cladder-Micus, Mira; Hagoort, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Speakers sometimes repeat syntactic structures across sentences, a phenomenon called syntactic priming. We investigated the influence of verb-bound syntactic preferences on syntactic priming effects in response choices and response latencies for German ditransitive sentences. In the response choices we found "inverse preference effects":…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Verbs, Syntax, Priming
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cuza, Alejandro; Frank, Joshua – Second Language Research, 2015
The present study examines and compares the extent to which advanced L2 learners of Spanish and Spanish heritage speakers acquire the syntactic and semantic properties that regulate the grammatical representation of double complementizer questions in Spanish, a CP-related structure not present in English. Results from an aural sentence completion…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Role