The Syntactic Representation of English L2 Double-Object in Written Sentence Production
This study investigated the syntactic representation(SR)of double-object in written sentences produced by English L2 learners of Chinese with the confederate-scripting task and syntactic priming paradigm.The results showed that SR was influenced by both L2 proficiency and repeated-verbs.Specifically,only highly proficient learners exhibited a significant abstract syntactic priming effect and a lexical-boost effect in their syntactic choices(SC).In contrast,less proficient learners shortened the sentence production onset latencies(SPOL)when both repeated-verbs and syntactic priming were present.These findings indicate a developmental progression from lexical SR to abstract SR,as well as from reducing SPOL to increasing SC in repeated-verbs scenarios,as L2 proficiency improves.Furthermore,the study proposes an SR model of double-object for English L2 learners of Chinese,which suggests that L2 lexical SR and abstract SR are successively formed,and that repeated-verbs can facilitate SC and shorten SPOL.
syntactic representationL2 proficiencyrepeated-verbssyntactic primingwritten sentence production
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