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Syntactic priming in spoken production: linguistic and temporal interference.

H P Branigan1, M J Pickering, A J Stewart

  • 1University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Memory & Cognition
|February 28, 2001
PubMed
Summary

Syntactic priming effects in spoken sentence completion are long-lasting, persisting even with intervening sentences or delays. This challenges theories suggesting rapid decay due to conceptual planning or task modality.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology

Background:

  • Evidence on the persistence of syntactic priming effects is conflicting.
  • Previous studies showed syntactic priming lasting over 10 trials in spoken tasks but dissipating quickly in written tasks.
  • Theories suggest conceptual planning or task modality (spoken vs. written) influence priming duration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the factors contributing to the long-lasting nature of syntactic priming.
  • To determine if conceptual planning or task modality affects syntactic priming persistence.
  • To test whether spoken priming effects decay rapidly under specific experimental conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted a spoken sentence completion experiment.

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  • Manipulated conditions: no delay, an intervening sentence, and a pure temporal delay between prime and target.
  • Compared priming effects across these different delay conditions.

    • Main Results:

    • Strong and similar syntactic priming effects were observed in all three conditions (no delay, intervening sentence, temporal delay).
    • The presence of an intervening sentence or temporal delay did not significantly reduce priming.
    • Results indicate that spoken syntactic priming is robust and long-lasting.

    Conclusions:

    • Spoken syntactic priming effects are durable and not easily disrupted by intervening linguistic material or temporal delays.
    • The findings support the idea that spoken priming is inherently long-lasting, independent of conceptual planning demands or task modality.
    • This research contributes to understanding the mechanisms underlying syntactic structure repetition in language production.