Teasing apart the impact of different forms of overlap on cross-linguistic structural priming

Garcia, R, Roeser, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-0923, Vargas, JC, Fathin, S and Kidd, E, 2025. Teasing apart the impact of different forms of overlap on cross-linguistic structural priming. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. ISSN 2327-3798

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Abstract

In the current paper, we examined the extent to which cross-linguistic structural priming effects can be found in genetically-unrelated languages, assessing the sensitivity of priming to varying degrees of overlap between the prime and target languages. In three experiments (Ns = 59, 57, 52), we tested the priming of L2 English passive sentences in response to patient-initial prime sentences in Tagalog (Experiments 1, 2) and Indonesian (Experiment 3). The linguistic properties of Tagalog and Indonesian allowed us to manipulate prime-target overlap in thematic role order, syntactic–thematic role mapping, and constituent order. Cross-linguistic priming effects were moderated by the degree of linguistic overlap between prime and target: priming effects were stronger given an overlap in syntactic–thematic role mapping, and strongest for shared constituent order. The results suggest that cross-linguistic priming effects can have different loci, and that each one has an additive effect on priming magnitude.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Creators:	Garcia, R., Roeser, J., Vargas, J.C., Fathin, S. and Kidd, E.
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited
Date:	7 October 2025
ISSN:	2327-3798
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/23273798.2025.2558640 DOI 2510659 Other
Rights:	© 2025 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or builtupon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	10 Oct 2025 07:42
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2025 08:42
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54541

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