Syntactic Priming Effect Comparation Between Primary-level And Middle-level Chinese Language Learners:A Behavioral Experiment

Syntactic processing and representation in language production is a concerned issue among psychological linguists.As an important experiment method,syntactic priming experiments have proved themselves to be a valuable tool to investigate language representation and processing.This paper considers how evidence from syntactic priming experiments can help explain the representation of Chinese as second language speaker and better the Mandarian classroom teaching.This experiment is a 2(Chinese Level)*3(Experiment Phase)design using confederate-scripting technique.We report results of 3 phases of the experiment in order to examine how language level affects the magnitude of syntactic priming.Outcomes also can be used to prove the existence of correction effect of syntactic priming and its persistence.The experiment results showed that syntactic priming in Chinese has a considerable correction effect and it still can be observed in a longer period.This effect has a correlation with language level,evidence from the experiment suggests that lower level learners are more sensitive to syntactic priming and its correction effect compared to higher level Chinese learners.