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Cai, Zhenguang G.; Zhao, Nan; Lin, Hao; Xu, Zebo; Thierfelder, Philip – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
In three structural priming experiments, we investigated whether deaf and hearing writers differ in the processes and representations underlying written language production. Experiment 1 showed that deaf writers of Mandarin Chinese exhibited comparable extents of structural priming and comparable lexical boosts, suggesting that syntactic encoding…
Descriptors: Deafness, Writing (Composition), Written Language, Mandarin Chinese
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Wei, Hang; Boland, Julie E.; Cai, Zhenguang G.; Yuan, Fang; Wang, Min – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
We report 2 self-paced reading experiments investigating the longevity of structural priming effects in comprehending reduced relative clauses among adult Chinese-speaking learners of English. Experiment 1 showed that structural priming occurred both when prime and target sentences were immediately adjacent and when they were separated by 1 or 2…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Priming, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
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Cai, Zhenguang G.; Pickering, Martin J.; Yan, Hao; Branigan, Holly P. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Bilinguals appear to have shared syntactic representations for similar constructions between languages but retain distinct representations for noncognate translation-equivalents (Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007). We inquire whether bilinguals have more integrated representations of cognate translation-equivalents. To investigate…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Sentences, Verbs