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March 19, 2026Open Access

A Developmental Investigation of Core Priming Effects on the Dative Alternation in German-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children and Adults

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Developmental investigation reveals structural priming effects in dative alternation among monolingual and bilingual individuals, suggesting dynamic syntactic learning.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how syntactic representations and priming effects develop in monolingual and bilingual children compared to adults.
  • Employed structural priming paradigm to assess syntactic knowledge.
  • Analyzed child-directed speech using CHILDES database for corpus data.
  • Conducted acceptability judgment and elicited production study with adults.
  • Performed structural priming experiments across three age groups of children (3-4, 5-6, 7-8) and adults.
  • Immediate and cumulative structural priming effects observed across all age groups.
  • Strongest priming effects found in the youngest children, decreasing with age.
  • Lexical boost effects emerged with increasing age, absent in the youngest group.
  • Findings suggest younger children's syntactic representations are less stable and more adaptable.

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Alina Kholodova (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69bb92ae496e729e629803c3https://doi.org/10.26204/kluedo/9731
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