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Semantic influence on processing gender agreement: evidence from Hebrew.

A Deutsch1, S Bentin, L Katz

  • 1School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|August 24, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Syntactic priming effects in Hebrew are stronger for animate subjects than inanimate ones. This finding suggests animacy influences how we process grammatical agreement and sentence coherence.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Linguistic Theory

Background:

  • Syntactic priming demonstrates how prior exposure to a structure influences its subsequent use.
  • Subject-predicate agreement, a core grammatical feature, is crucial for sentence comprehension.
  • Animacy, a semantic property, can influence cognitive processing, but its role in syntactic priming is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the animacy of a sentential subject affects the syntactic priming effect.
  • To examine the impact of subject-predicate gender agreement violations on priming.
  • To explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying the interaction between animacy and syntactic processing.

Main Methods:

  • Hebrew speakers participated in experiments involving syntactic priming.

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  • Subject-predicate gender agreement violations were introduced to elicit priming effects.
  • Naming latency for congruent and incongruent predicates was measured.
  • Animacy of the sentential subject (animate vs. inanimate) was manipulated.

    • Main Results:

    • A significant syntactic priming effect was observed, indicated by delayed naming of incongruent predicates.
    • The priming effect was significantly stronger when the sentential subject was animate compared to inanimate.
    • This animacy effect was independent of phonological transparency and sensitive to experimental design.

    Conclusions:

    • Animacy of the subject modulates the strength of syntactic priming in Hebrew.
    • The findings suggest that controlled coherence verification processes interact with agreement processing.
    • Animacy may play a role in the cognitive mechanisms underlying sentence production and comprehension.