We investigated syntactic priming in German children to explore crosslinguistic evidence for implicit learning accounts of language production and acquisition. Adult descriptions confirmed that German speakers (N=27) preferred to spontaneously produce active versus passive transitive and DO versus PO dative forms. We tested whether German-speaking children (N=29, M age =5.3, 15 girls/14 boys) could be primed to produce these dispreferred forms and whether such priming effects would persist across a target phase. Children first heard a block of priming sentences and then described a block of target pictures. They demonstrated significant priming effects for passive and PO dative structures, and these priming effects did not differ between the first and second halves of the block of target trials. These patterns of German child language production are consistent with implicit learning accounts of syntactic priming.

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句法启动作为德语儿童语言中的内隐学习


我们调查了德国儿童的句法启动，以探索语言产生和习得的内隐学习账户的跨语言证据。成人描述证实，讲德语的人 （N=27） 更喜欢自发地产生主动与被动及物形式，以及 DO 与 PO 与格形式。我们测试了讲德语的儿童 （N=29，M 年龄 =5.3,15 名女孩/14 名男孩）是否可以被触发产生这些不喜欢的形式，以及这种触发效应是否会在目标阶段持续存在。孩子们首先听到一组启动句子，然后描述一组目标图片。它们对被动和 PO dative 结构表现出显着的引发效应，并且这些引发效应在靶点试验块的第一半和第二半之间没有差异。这些德语儿童语言生产模式与句法启动的内隐学习解释是一致的。