This study examined dual language learners'(DLLs n= 24) and English‐only (EO n= 20)
children's expressive and receptive language in kindergarten (Mage= 5.7 years) as well as …

A substantial literature exists using the syntactic priming methodology with children to test
hypotheses regarding the acquisition of syntax, under the assumption that priming effects …

The ultimate goal of research is to generate and test broad theories that account for a wide
range of scenarios. Conclusions at this level, however, are only valid if they are based on …

The current study addressed the relation between syntactic and semantic processes during
language production in 5-and 6-year-old children. A priming paradigm was used to examine …

This study investigates whether repeating a prime sentence aloud strengthens short-term
and longer-term priming of adverb-first word order among adult intermediate L1 English …

When a child is simultaneously exposed to two different languages, they will need to parse
the incoming input, and map form to meaning to create mental representations that are …

We begin Volume V of the Handbook of Reading Research by raising questions that ground
this research in the demands of the past, present, and future. As in previous volumes, some …

The present study investigates the developmental trajectory of abstract representations for
syntactic structures in children. In a structural priming experiment on the dative alternation in …

This study investigated cross-linguistic priming in six-year-old, balanced Spanish-English
bilinguals (n= 60). We examined bilinguals' production of transitive forms in English (active …

We investigated syntactic priming in German children to explore crosslinguistic evidence for
implicit learning accounts of language production and acquisition. Adult descriptions …