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Lexically-driven syntactic priming.

Alissa Melinger1, Christian Dobel

  • 1Dept. of Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. melinger@coli.uni-sb.de

Cognition
|June 1, 2005
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Syntactic priming shows that hearing a sentence structure influences future speech. A single verb is enough to bias production, supporting lexically-driven accounts of this phenomenon.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Syntactic priming describes how exposure to a sentence structure influences subsequent utterances.
  • Existing explanations involve morphosyntactic feature retrieval or preserving message-word sequence mappings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the featural account of syntactic priming.
  • To investigate the role of single verbs in syntactic priming using the dative alternation in German and Dutch.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using single word primes.
  • Native speakers were exposed to ditransitive verbs restricted to specific constructions.
  • Participants then described pictures that could be depicted using either construction.

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Main Results:

  • A single verb in isolation was sufficient to bias speakers' production preferences.
  • This finding supports lexically-driven accounts over featural accounts.

Conclusions:

  • Lexical information plays a crucial role in syntactic priming.
  • The study provides evidence for verb-specific priming mechanisms.