A Meta-analysis of Cross-linguistic Syntactic Priming Effects

• 作 者: XIANGYU JIANG LIANG CHEN
• 机 构: University of Georgia,USA,Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai,University of Georgia,
• 出 处: 当代外语研究
• 发表日期: 2014年12期
• 关键词: proficiency syntactic lexical speaker sizes minutes subsequent refined comprehen

Cross-linguistic syntactic priming(C LSP)refers to the phenomenon that the use of aparticular structure(e.g.,p assives)in one language facilitates orprimes the subsequent use of the parallel structure in the other language of abilingual speaker.Individual studies examining CLSP effects have produced conflicting results.This study aims to estimate the population effects of cross-ling uistic syntactic priming effects and lexical boost effect,and to examine how potential moderators(priming direction,L2learnersproficiency levels,and structural similarities)influenced crosslinguistic priming,electronic research databases were searched sy stematically for published studies,which measured CLSP effects.Meta-analytic techniques were used to analyze 20L1 to L2cross-linguistic studies with 32 effects sizes and 10L2 to L1studies with 19 effect sizes.Most studies involved 20-45 minutes of priming activities.Hetero geneity exists within the crosslinguistic priming but the priming direction(L1to L2 or L2to L1),L2learnersproficiency levels,experimental modes and structural similarities were not potential moderators.For the L1 to L2studies,the results turned out to be homogeneous.For the L2 to L1direction,though the results were heterog eneous,L2learnersproficiency level,experimental modes,and structural similarities were not moderators.More detailed information should be given for the cross-linguistic priming studies and more refined meta-analy sis containing more p otential moderators should be carried out in the future.

Cross-linguistic syntactic priming (C LSP) refers to the phenomenon that the use of aparticular structure (eg, p assives) in one language facilitates orprimes the subsequent use of the parallel structure in the other language of abilingual speaker. Individual studies examining CLSP effects has produced conflicting results. This study aims to estimate the population effects of cross-linguistic syntactic priming effects and lexical boost effect, and to examine how potential moderators (priming direction, L2learnersproficiency levels, and structural similarities) influenced crosslinguistic priming, electronic research databases were searched systically for published studies, which measured CLSP effects. Meta-analytic techniques were used to analyze 20L1 to L2 cross-linguistic studies with 32 effects sizes and 10L2 to L1 histories with 19 effect sizes. Host studies involved 20-45 minutes of priming activities. Hetero geneity exists within the cross-linguistic priming but priming direction (L1to L 2 or L2to L1), L2learnersproficiency levels, experimental modes and structural similarities were not potential moderators. For the L1 to L2studies, the results turned out to be homogeneous. For the L2 to L1direction, though the results were heterog eneous, L2learners proficiency level, experimental modes, and structural similarities were not moderators. More detailed information should be given for the cross-linguistic priming studies and more refined meta-analy sis containing more p otential moderators should be carried out in the future.