Literature Review of Syntactic Priming Experiment Methods and Bilingual Speech Production Models

Syntactic priming refers to the tendency of people to repeatedly use sentence structures that have just been processed in speech production. Since Bock's first research, syntactic priming has become an important field for the study of syntactic representation and sentence generation mechanism from the perspective of psycholinguistics, and has received more and more attention. The application of syntactic priming experiment method provides a window for us to study some of the internal mechanisms of human syntactic representation and language processing, and also provides a scientific basis for revealing the internal mechanism of syntactic representation. This article introduces the experimental paradigms of foreign syntactic priming and its experimental methods, including Bock's research paradigm, the syntactic reconstruction hypothesis of Potter and Lombordi, and the lexical syntax layer theory of Pichering and Branigan. The experiments have all achieved a priming effect. These theories explain the process of syntactic representation and sentence production in detail and help to reveal the mechanism of sentence comprehension. Second language acquisition is a very complex psychological process involving many relevant factors. Since the birth of this discipline, scholars have explored cross-sectional and in-depth understanding of second language acquisition from various fields such as applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and have proposed various Second language acquisition theories. Based on Levelt's mother tongue output model, this article briefly introduces De Bot and Kormos et al.'s bilingual speech production models, explains the application and development of the theory, and finally points out the deficiency of the bilingual speech production models.