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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Human communication often exhibits convergence in behavior and language use.
  • Automatic cross-person priming, particularly structural priming, has been proposed to explain these convergent patterns.
  • Previous research claimed syntactic repetition is ubiquitous in conversation, but often conflated with lexical repetition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate general syntactic repetition effects in ordinary conversation.
  • To test whether structural priming occurs independently of lexical repetition in unscripted dialogue.
  • To determine if people repeat syntactic constructions during natural conversation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of syntactic repetition patterns in two large corpora of unscripted everyday conversations.
  • Statistical analysis controlling for lexical repetition effects.
  • Comparison of observed syntactic repetition with chance expectations.

Main Results:

  • No general tendency for individuals to repeat their own syntactic constructions was found when lexical repetition was accounted for.
  • People systematically diverge in their use of syntactic constructions, repeating each other's less than expected by chance.
  • Observed syntactic divergence challenges the ubiquity of structural priming in natural conversation.

Conclusions:

  • Structural priming effects in ordinary conversation are minimal or absent.
  • The need for active engagement and productive responses to conversational partners overrides automatic priming.
  • Findings suggest human conversation involves systematic syntactic divergence rather than convergence through priming.