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Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses

This study investigated inverse preference effects in L2 structural priming of English relative clauses and their potential influences on subsequent learning of target structures. One hundred fourteen Chinese learners of English at a low-to-intermediate proficiency level participated in a structural...

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Autores principales: Wei, Ran, Kim, Sun-A, Shin, Jeong-Ah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35814135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.845691
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description This study investigated inverse preference effects in L2 structural priming of English relative clauses and their potential influences on subsequent learning of target structures. One hundred fourteen Chinese learners of English at a low-to-intermediate proficiency level participated in a structural priming experiment with a pretest-posttest design. The experimental group underwent a priming task in which they orally produced syntactic structures immediately after viewing English object or passive relative clauses as primes, whereas the control group only read sentences unrelated to English relative clauses. A grammaticality judgment task and a sentence completion task were used to measure the inverse preference effect and its subsequent effects on L2 learning. The results showed the presence of structural priming and inverse preference effects in immediate production, which extended to subsequent learning of L2. In subsequent grammaticality judgments and production, L2 learners performed better with English object relative clauses than with English passive relative clauses in comparison with the pretest. The results are discussed in terms of the structural frequency in both L1 and L2 as well as the implicit learning mechanisms of structural priming.
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spelling pubmed-92585102022-07-07 Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses Wei, Ran Kim, Sun-A Shin, Jeong-Ah Front Psychol Psychology This study investigated inverse preference effects in L2 structural priming of English relative clauses and their potential influences on subsequent learning of target structures. One hundred fourteen Chinese learners of English at a low-to-intermediate proficiency level participated in a structural priming experiment with a pretest-posttest design. The experimental group underwent a priming task in which they orally produced syntactic structures immediately after viewing English object or passive relative clauses as primes, whereas the control group only read sentences unrelated to English relative clauses. A grammaticality judgment task and a sentence completion task were used to measure the inverse preference effect and its subsequent effects on L2 learning. The results showed the presence of structural priming and inverse preference effects in immediate production, which extended to subsequent learning of L2. In subsequent grammaticality judgments and production, L2 learners performed better with English object relative clauses than with English passive relative clauses in comparison with the pretest. The results are discussed in terms of the structural frequency in both L1 and L2 as well as the implicit learning mechanisms of structural priming. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9258510/ /pubmed/35814135 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.845691 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wei, Kim and Shin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Shin, Jeong-Ah
Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses
title Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses
title_full Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses
title_fullStr Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses
title_full_unstemmed Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses
title_short Structural Priming and Inverse Preference Effects in L2 Grammaticality Judgment and Production of English Relative Clauses
title_sort structural priming and inverse preference effects in l2 grammaticality judgment and production of english relative clauses
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35814135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.845691
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