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Moving beyond the priming of single-language sentences: A proposal for a comprehensive model to account for linguistic representation in bilinguals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Gerrit Jan Kootstra  and
Eleonora Rossi
Gerrit Jan Kootstra
Affiliation:
Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, 8000 GB Zwolle, Netherlands. g.kootstra.work@gmail.com gerritjankootstra.wordpress.com
Eleonora Rossi
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Sociology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA 91768. erossi@cpp.edu sites.google.com/site/eleonorarossishomepage/
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Abstract

In their target article, Branigan & Pickering (B&P) briefly discuss bilingual language representation, focusing primarily on cross-language priming between single-language sentences. We follow up on this discussion by showing how structural priming drives real-life phenomena of bilingual language use beyond the priming of unilingual sentences and by arguing that B&P's account should be extended with a representation for language membership.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e297
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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