The Production of Non-Canonical Word Orders in Spoken Mandarin Chinese : Comparing Syntactic Priming in First, Second, and Heritage Language Speakers

Chen, Hailong and Monaghan, Padraic and Messenger, Katherine (2025) The Production of Non-Canonical Word Orders in Spoken Mandarin Chinese : Comparing Syntactic Priming in First, Second, and Heritage Language Speakers. In: The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2025-11-06 - 2025-11-09, Boston University.

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Abstract

Syntactic priming, the tendency to reuse syntactic structures after exposure, is a key method for studying how linguistic input influences language production (Ferreira & Bock, 2006). Priming effects can persist for a week in bilinguals (Hurtado & Montreal, 2021), but we do not know how this applies across diverse languages and speakers. This study tested syntactic priming of Chinese non-canonical word orders (BA, BEI, and OSV constructions; Hao et al., 2023) in L1, L2, and Heritage Language (HL) speakers.

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Contribution to Conference (Speech)

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The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

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The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50) at Boston University, Boston, MA, US, November 2025

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?? syntactic primingnon-canonical word orderssecond language speakersheritage language speakersmandarin chineseyes - externally fundednoexperimental and cognitive psychologylanguage and linguisticsdevelopmental and educational psychology ??

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Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology

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236381

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Deposited On:

01 Apr 2026 12:30

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01 Apr 2026 12:30

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https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/236381