Purpose: We propose that implicit learning, including syntactic priming, has therapeutic
promise to enhance the syntactic knowledge of children with developmental language …

Theories of language acquisition vary significantly in their assumptions regarding the
content of children's early syntactic representations and how they subsequently develop …

This paper investigates the role of structural priming in cross-linguistic influence, a well-
established yet poorly understood characteristic of bilingual language development. More …

A substantial literature exists using the syntactic priming methodology with children to test
hypotheses regarding the acquisition of syntax, under the assumption that priming effects …

Background The language of the science curriculum is complex, even in the early grades.
To communicate their scientific observations, children must produce complex syntax …

The ultimate goal of research is to generate and test broad theories that account for a wide
range of scenarios. Conclusions at this level, however, are only valid if they are based on …

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 a recent study, preschoolers adapted their syntactic expectations about a familiar phrase
in French; this adaptation affected later word learning. In two experiments, we probed the …

Code-switching is generally dispreferred at points of non-shared word order across a
bilingual's two languages. In priming studies, this dispreference persists even following …

A history of “priming” research that analyzes the field's underlying assumptions and
experimental protocols to shed new light on a contemporary crisis in social psychology. In …