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Framing sentences.

K Bock1, H Loebell

  • 1Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1117.

Cognition
|April 1, 1990
PubMed
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Sentence frames in language production are primarily syntactic, not semantic. Research shows phrase structure replication persists even when event meaning changes, indicating independent syntactic representations.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Sentence frames during language production are often viewed as hierarchical constituent structures.
  • Debate exists on whether these frames represent pure structure or convey meaning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the nature of sentence frames in language production.
  • To determine if frames are independent syntactic representations or tied to semantic/conceptual information.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a sentence priming paradigm with primes and targets.
  • Manipulated shared phrase structures and event structures between primes and targets.
  • Conducted three experiments to test different hypotheses.

Main Results:

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  • Experiments 1 and 2 showed consistent replication of prime phrase structures in targets, irrespective of event structure changes.
  • Experiment 3 ruled out metrical or closed-class lexical similarities as the cause for phrase structure replication.

Conclusions:

  • Sentence frames appear to be independent syntactic representations.
  • Findings suggest that syntactic frames are not reducible to metrical or conceptual information.