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Closed-class immanence in sentence production.

K Bock

    Cognition
    |March 1, 1989
    PubMed
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    The closed-class hypothesis suggests function words are key to syntax. However, this study found that changes to these words did not impact syntactic priming, challenging their inherent role in sentence structure.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psycholinguistics
    • Cognitive Science
    • Linguistics

    Background:

    • The closed-class hypothesis posits that function words (e.g., prepositions, articles) are integral to syntactic processing.
    • This hypothesis suggests these words are inherently linked to the structural framework of sentences during language production.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To empirically test the closed-class hypothesis regarding the role of function words in syntactic processes.
    • To investigate whether changes in closed-class elements influence syntactic priming beyond structural effects.

    Main Methods:

    • Employed a syntactic priming procedure across two experiments.
    • Participants produced utterances, and their syntactic structures were analyzed in relation to priming sentences.
    • Varied the closed-class elements and overall sentence structures of the priming stimuli.

    Main Results:

    • Syntactic priming was observed, with participants replicating the syntactic forms of the priming sentences.
    • Structural changes in primes significantly influenced participants' sentence production.
    • Modifications to closed-class elements alone did not enhance or alter the priming effect beyond structural impacts.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings do not support the notion that free-standing closed-class morphemes are inherently part of English sentence structural frames.
    • Syntactic structure, rather than specific function words, appears to be the primary driver of syntactic priming effects.

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