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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Previous research indicates that sentence comprehension relies on lexical constraints like subcategorization frequency.
  • Lexically specific syntactic priming demonstrates that comprehenders reuse syntactic structures with the same verb after initial processing difficulty.
  • Prior studies using reading paradigms observed priming effects only after disambiguating information, leaving the timing of priming effects unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether syntactic priming affects sentence processing before or only after ambiguity resolution.
  • To examine the role of lexical specificity in syntactic priming during sentence comprehension.
  • To test the predictions of the constraint-based lexicalist view regarding parallel structural activation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a visual world paradigm to track comprehenders' predictions in real-time.
  • Employed Japanese relative clause sentences to study structural ambiguity.
  • Compared priming effects for the same verb versus different verbs.

Main Results:

  • Comprehenders showed increased prediction of a dispreferred structure immediately after hearing the same verb.
  • No similar priming effect was observed when a different verb was introduced.
  • The findings suggest that priming is lexically specific and occurs early in processing.

Conclusions:

  • The experience of processing a dispreferred structure primes comprehenders in a lexically specific manner.
  • This priming leads to the prediction of similar structures upon encountering the same verb.
  • Results support the constraint-based lexicalist view of parallel activation of syntactic analyses at the verb.