Much research in bilingualism has addressed the question of extent to which lexical information is shared between languages. The present study investigated whether syntactic by testing if priming occurs Spanish-English bilingual participants described cards each other a dialogue game. We found that participant who had just heard sentence Spanish tended use same type when describing next card English. In particular, English passives were considerably more common following passive than...

Abstract Dialog is a joint action at different levels. At the highest level, goal of interlocutors to align their mental representations. This emerges from activity lower levels, both concerned with linguistic decisions (e.g., choice words) and nonlinguistic processes alignment posture or speech rate). Because high‐level goal, are particularly close coupling these As we illustrate examples, this means that imitation entrainment pronounced during interactive communication. We then argue...

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is job of linguists to investigate how language represented, and they do so largely by building theories based on explicit judgments about patterns acceptability - whereas task psychologists determine processed, in doing so, not typically question linguists' representational assumptions. We challenge this division labor arguing structural priming provides an implicit method investigating linguistic representations should end...

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT have shown remarkable capacities in comprehending producing language. However, their internal workings remain a black box cognitive terms, it is unclear whether LLMs can develop humanlike characteristics use. Cognitive scientists devised many experiments that probe, made great progress explaining, how people process We subjected to 12 of these experiments, preregistered with 1,000 runs per experiment. In 10 them, replicated...

Abstract Theories of sentence processing have standardly made use grammatical theories with empty categories, and therefore postulated a process known as "gap-filling". In contrast, this paper provides evidence that the unbounded dependencies does not make categories. We propose instead there is direct association between extracted element its subcategoriser. To show gap-filling cannot take place, we consider number examples where material separating assumed category subcategoriser, then...

The authors investigated the time course of processing metonymic expressions in comparison with literal ones 2 eye-tracking experiments. Experiment 1 considered sentences containing place-for-institution metonymies such as convent That blasphemous woman had to answer convent; it was found that were similar difficulty interpretations same expressions. In contrast, without a relevant interpretation caused immediate difficulty. results for place-for-event A lot Americans protested during...

Studies on syntactic priming strongly suggest that bilinguals can store a single integrated representation of constructions are similar in both languages (e.g., Spanish and English passives; R. J. Hartsuiker, M. Pickering, & E. Veltkamp, 2004). However, they may 2 separate representations involve different word orders German H. Loebell K. Bock, 2003). In 5 experiments, the authors investigated within--and between--languages Dutch, English, relative clauses. The found within Dutch (Experiment...