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Manabu Arai1, Roger P G van Gompel, Christoph Scheepers

  • 1Department of Psychology, The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburg EH8 9JZ, UK. manabu.arai@ed.ac.uk

Cognitive Psychology
|September 16, 2006
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Syntactic priming occurs in language comprehension, similar to production. However, this priming effect is entirely dependent on repeating the same verb, unlike in production.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Syntactic priming is well-documented in language production.
  • It is hypothesized that language comprehension shares mechanisms with production, suggesting priming may occur during comprehension.
  • Previous comprehension priming research often used syntactically ambiguous structures, differing from production paradigms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate syntactic priming in language comprehension using ditransitive sentences.
  • To compare comprehension priming with production priming using similar sentence structures.
  • To determine the role of lexical repetition in comprehension priming.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted to test for syntactic priming in comprehension.

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  • Participants were exposed to prime sentences and then target sentences.
  • The study manipulated verb repetition between prime and target sentences.

    • Main Results:

    • A priming effect was observed when the verb was repeated between prime and target sentences.
    • No priming effect was found when different verbs were used between prime and target sentences.
    • Comprehension priming effects were found to be lexically dependent.

    Conclusions:

    • Syntactic priming occurs in language comprehension for structures similar to those in production.
    • Unlike production, comprehension priming is critically dependent on lexical repetition (verb repetition).
    • This suggests differences in the mechanisms underlying syntactic priming in language comprehension versus production.