Is Syntax Separate or Shared Between Languages?

By Robert J. Hartsuiker, Martin J. Pickering, E. Veltkamp. Psychology Science, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of anaphoric and cataphoric pronouns in English–Italian bilingual children (2007, background): “For example, Hartsuiker et al. (2004) showed that Spanish–English bilingual adults were significantly more likely to use a passive construction in English after listening to a passive construction in Spanish than after listening to an active or an intransitive construction in Spanish.”
Cross-linguistic structural priming in multilinguals: further evidence for shared syntax (2016, background): “As noted above, the currently most elaborated shared-syntax account (Hartsuiker et al., 2004) cannot explain structural priming of relative clause attachment, because the distinction between high- and a low attachment sentences concerns the global syntactic configuration of the complex noun phrase a”
Structural priming: a critical review. (2008, background): “…of Pickering and Branigan’s (1998) lemma stratum, in which shared representations are “tagged” for both languages and nonshared representations are tagged for one or the other language (Bernolet et al., 2007; Hartsuiker et al., 2004; Schoonbaert et al., 2007; see Hartsuiker & Pickering, in press).”
A control process model of code-switching (2014, background): “We follow Hartsuiker, Pickering, and Veltkamp (2004) in supposing that common syntactic structures are represented by combinatorial nodes (see also Kootstra, van Hell, & Dijkstra, 2012).”
Syntactic alignment and shared word order in code-switched sentence production: Evidence from bilingual monologue and dialogue (2010, methodology): “Hartsuiker et al. (2004) studied priming of these passive sentences between Spanish and English. In line with the cross-language word order equivalence between Spanish and English, Hartsuiker et al. found a priming effect for passives. Cross-language syntactic priming effects have been replicated in”
Alignment as the Basis for Successful Communication (2006, background): “Hartsuiker, Pickering, and Veltkamp (2004) found alignment between languages, with bilingual participants tending to use an English passive more often if their partner had just used a Spanish passive than if she had just used a Spanish active (cf. Schoonbaert et al., in press).”
The logic of syntactic priming and acceptability judgments (2016, neutral): “One relevant restriction on structure sharing is word order: Between-language priming is reduced or eliminated when the structures have different word orders across languages (e.g., English: the shark that is red vs. Dutch: de haai die rood is; ‘the shark that red is’; Bernolet, Hartsuiker, and Pick”
Processing verb argument structure across languages: Evidence for shared representations in the bilingual lexicon (2007, methodology): “Second, Heydel and Murray (2000) elicited written target responses in their tasks. Although structure priming has been obtained in written production as well, Branigan, Pickering, and Cleland (1999) found that the effect decays rapidly in written production when other structures intervene between pr”
Linguistic alignment between people and computers (2010, positive): “Similar alignment also occurs with other denotationally equivalent but syntactically distinct constructions (Cleland and Pickering, 2003; Haywood et al., 2005), and even between languages in bilinguals (Hartsuiker et al., 2004).”