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September 27, 2025Linguistic Approaches to BilingualismOpen Access

Teenage kicks: Exploring shared syntax through bidirectional crosslinguistic priming

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LSLudovica SerratriceMWMarta WęsierskaVCVanessa Cieplinska

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Experiments reveal syntax priming differences between adolescent heritage speakers and adults, highlighting language-specific preferences.

Key Points

  • Adolescents showed resistance to priming for relative clauses, unlike adults who exhibited bidirectional priming.
  • Both adolescent and adult groups produced possessor-second structures in Polish, supporting canonical word order.
  • Increased language experience positively influenced priming for complex structures like relative clauses in adults.
  • Findings emphasize the impact of complexity and frequency on bilingual syntactic representations during development.

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Serratrice et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d7be66eebfec0fc5237d43https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24010.ser
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