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  • Social Psychology

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  • Speakers frequently mirror syntactic constructions used by their conversational partners.
  • This phenomenon, known as structural persistence, highlights sensitivity to interlocutors' linguistic input.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how individual differences in social-cognitive sensitivity affect structural persistence in dialogue.
  • Investigating the roles of perspective-taking and field-dependence/independence in conversational syntax repetition.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed measures of perspective-taking and field-dependence/independence.
  • Engaged in a picture description task with a confederate, describing ditransitive events.
  • Analyzed target descriptions for syntactic structure (prepositional dative vs. double object) following confederate primes.

Main Results:

  • Higher perspective-taking scores correlated with increased syntactic repetition.
  • Greater field-independence also predicted more structural persistence.
  • These effects were predominantly observed with prepositional dative (PD) primes, not double object (DO) primes.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in sensitivity to others' perspectives and local linguistic structures influence conversational repetition.
  • Variability in these cognitive traits shapes the likelihood of exhibiting structural persistence in dialogue.