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|April 20, 2000
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Speakers in dialogue unconsciously align their sentence structures, demonstrating syntactic priming. This research shows that conversational partners coordinate not just what they say, but how they say it.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Speakers coordinate contributions in dialogue, often focusing on shared reference strategies.
  • Previous experimental studies on dialogue coordination have primarily examined shared referential strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether speakers coordinate syntactic structure during dialogue.
  • To explore the phenomenon of syntactic priming in spoken conversation.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a novel confederate-scripting technique in an experimental setting.
  • Paired speakers described pictures to each other, with one confederate providing scripted descriptions.
  • Systematically varied the syntactic structure of the confederate's descriptions to observe effects on the partner's speech.

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Main Results:

  • The syntactic structure of a confederate's description influenced the syntactic structure of the subsequent description by the other speaker.
  • Demonstrated a significant effect of syntactic priming in spoken dialogue.

Conclusions:

  • Findings provide evidence for a shared level of representation in language comprehension and production.
  • Suggests that syntactic coordination in dialogue is an instance of syntactic priming.
  • Discusses implications for processing models of language production and linguistic coordination in conversation.