Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change
This paper focuses on structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change, bringing insights from historical and anthropological linguistics together with psycholinguistic, processing-based approaches. We begin with a discussion of the relation between levels of aw...
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| description | This paper focuses on structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change, bringing insights from historical and anthropological linguistics together with psycholinguistic, processing-based approaches. We begin with a discussion of the relation between levels of awareness and agency in the linguistic literature, focusing on the work of Von Humboldt, Silverstein, Van Coetsem, and Trudgill. Then we turn to the psycholinguistic notion of structural priming, aiming to show that cross-linguistic structural priming is a plausible mechanism driving contact-induced language change, and explore the properties of priming and its relation to the levels of awareness discussion in the linguistic literature. We end with suggestions for future research to further elucidate the relation between structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4409b34515d4824bbaae9fa9d2b8ec72022-12-22T01:57:14ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2019-08-01436510.3390/languages4030065languages4030065Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language ChangeGerrit Jan Kootstra0Pieter Muysken1Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, 6525 XZ Nijmegen, The NetherlandsCentre for Language Studies, Radboud University, 6525 XZ Nijmegen, The NetherlandsThis paper focuses on structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change, bringing insights from historical and anthropological linguistics together with psycholinguistic, processing-based approaches. We begin with a discussion of the relation between levels of awareness and agency in the linguistic literature, focusing on the work of Von Humboldt, Silverstein, Van Coetsem, and Trudgill. Then we turn to the psycholinguistic notion of structural priming, aiming to show that cross-linguistic structural priming is a plausible mechanism driving contact-induced language change, and explore the properties of priming and its relation to the levels of awareness discussion in the linguistic literature. We end with suggestions for future research to further elucidate the relation between structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/3/65structural primingagencyawarenessinteractive alignmentcontact-induced language change |
| spellingShingle | Gerrit Jan Kootstra Pieter Muysken Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change Languages structural priming agency awareness interactive alignment contact-induced language change |
| title | Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change |
| title_full | Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change |
| title_fullStr | Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change |
| title_short | Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change |
| title_sort | structural priming levels of awareness and agency in contact induced language change |
| topic | structural priming agency awareness interactive alignment contact-induced language change |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/3/65 |
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