{"pk":24546,"title":"Shared syntax in bilinguals: Does code-switching affect the strength of cross-language structural priming?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Results from both cross-language priming and code-switching studies suggest that syntax is shared between languages in a bilingual's language system. However, it is not clear how these bilingual language phenomena interact. We tested whether, under an implicit learning account, code-switching in the prime increases syntax sharing, leading to stronger cross-language priming. We conducted four simulated Spanish to English structural priming experiments using the Bilingual Dual-path model. The primes either had an English (code-switched) determiner and noun or noun only, at the beginning or end of the sentence, or were entirely in Spanish. Mixed effects analyses only revealed a significant positive interaction between code-switch condition and priming, indicating stronger priming, with a code-switched English noun phrase at the very beginning of the sentence, but non-significant interactions otherwise. These results provide further support for the idea that code-switching and cross-language structural priming can be interpreted as evidence for shared syntactic representations bilinguals.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Language Production; Multilingualism; Syntax; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3x69g1vf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yung Han","middle_name":"","last_name":"Khoe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Gerrit Jan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kootstra","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Edith","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kaan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Florida","department":""},{"first_name":"Rob","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schoonen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Stefan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Frank","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24546/galley/21547/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24546/galley/14143/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24546/galley/21547/download/"}]}