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nbsp;with  SLI and their Typically Developing Age-matched (TDA) peers? 3. Are there differences in the spontaneous and priming data of SLI and TDA? If so, how to explain the differences? By  combining  spontaneous  and  experimental  data,  the  overarching  goal  of  the present study is to explore whether and under what conditions does syntactic priming occur in children’s production, thereby enriching our understanding of SLI children’s syntactic acquisition and development. 
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CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 

This  chapter  is  devoted  t to  reviewing  the  previous  research  on  the  ditransitive construction and syntactic priming. At the beginning of this chapter, the author tries to give  definitions  and  classify  different  types  of  ditransitive  constructions  in  both English  and  Chinese.  Then  the  author  goes  on  to  illustrate  main  hypotheses concerning  the  ditransitive  construction  and  syntactic  priming.  Studies  both  at  home and  abroad,  with  adults  and  children  are  referred  to.  Finally,  focus  of  the  present research is clarified.

2.1  Studies on the ditransitive construction
The ditransitive construction is a common phenomenon with different  expressions in different human languages.  In English, there are two typical sentence structures: (1) a. John gave Mary a book. b. John gave a book to Mary. It  has  been  agreed  by  scholars  that  (1a)  is  the  basic  form  of  Double  Object Construction (DOC) in English which means “the Subject cause Indirect  Object (IO) to  have  Direct  Object  (DO)”  while  (1b)  is  a  Dative  Construction  (DC)  with  the meaning  that  “the  Subject  cause  DO  to  go  to  IO”  (e.g.  Pesetsky  1995,  Harley  2003, Beck & Johnson 2004). 
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2.2  Studies on the syntactic priming 
Syntactic  priming  in  production  (sometimes  also  called  structural  priming)  refers  to the tendency for people to reuse utterance structures which they have been exposed in the  previous  context.  There  are  four  basic  paradigms  of  syntactic  priming:  sentence repetition  &  picture  description  paradigm,  sentence-completion  paradigm,  sentence-recall  paradigm  and  visual-world  eye-movement  paradigm.  Previous  research  has revealed  the  existence  of  syntactic  priming  in  different  languages,  different  sentence structures,  different  groups  of  people  and  different  registers  of  language.  It  has  been demonstrated  in  speech  production  (Bock  1986), &本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。