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 lan...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,L2learnersproficiency 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),L2learnersproficiency 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,L2learnersproficiency 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.展开更多
文摘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,L2learnersproficiency 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),L2learnersproficiency 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,L2learnersproficiency 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.
