Abstract grammatical knowledge-of parts of speech and grammatical patterns-is key to the
capacity for linguistic generalization in humans. But how abstract is grammatical knowledge …

Linguistic alignment is defined as the development of aligned representations drawing on
an automatic psycholinguistic priming mechanism that acts on every level of linguistic …

Several studies used artificial language (AL) learning paradigms to investigate structural
priming between languages in early phases of learning. The presence of such priming …

Is syntactic processing in a second language (L2) influenced by the first language? This
chapter reviews studies that address this issue, with an emphasis on work testing cross …

When a child is simultaneously exposed to two different languages, they will need to parse
the incoming input, and map form to meaning to create mental representations that are …

In today's globalized world, we are surrounded by words, sentences, and texts produced by
second-language (L2) users. Databases containing spontaneous speech and assignments …

Knowing the sentence structures (ie, information that guides the assembly of words into
sentences) is crucial in language knowledge. This knowledge must be stable for successful …

How do bilingual speakers represent the information that guides the assembly of words into
sentences for their two languages? The shared-syntax account argues that bilinguals have a …

How do bilingual speakers represent and use information that guides the assembly of the
words into phrases and sentences (ie, sentence structures) for languages that have different …

A key question in the study of language representation in bilinguals is whether knowledge is
shared across languages. Crosslinguistic syntactic priming has been widely used to test …