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The Relationship between Syntactic Satiation and Syntactic Priming: A First Look
1Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Frontiers in Psychology
|November 10, 2017
Summary
Syntactic satiation, where sentences become more acceptable with repetition, varies by structure type. Priming and satiation link for some structures like Subject islands, but not others like Complex-NP Constraint islands.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Syntactic Processing
- Language Acquisition
Background:
- Syntactic satiation describes increased acceptability of initially ungrammatical sentences after repeated exposure.
- Syntactic priming, where recent structure exposure aids subsequent processing, is influenced by proximity and lexical repetition.
- The relationship between syntactic priming and satiation requires further investigation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the link between syntactic priming and syntactic satiation.
- To examine the effects of proximity of exposure and lexical repetition on syntactic satiation.
- To determine if satiation effects reflect online processing or offline judgments.
Main Methods:
- Experiment 1 used acceptability ratings to assess satiation for Complex-NP Constraint (CNPC) and Subject islands.
- Experiment 2 employed self-paced reading to investigate online processing facilitation.
- Manipulated proximity of exposure (one vs. five sentences) and lexical repetition between prime and target sentences.
Main Results:
- Experiment 1 showed improved CNPC island acceptability with close proximity but no effect for Subject islands.
- Experiment 2 revealed online priming for Subject islands with close proximity, and a localized effect for CNPC islands at greater proximity.
- Discrepancies between online processing and offline ratings suggest different mechanisms for Subject and CNPC islands.
Conclusions:
- Syntactic satiation is not uniform; it manifests differently across distinct syntactic structures.
- Priming may contribute to satiation in some structures (Subject islands) but not others (CNPC islands).
- Mechanisms underlying satiation are structure-dependent but sensitive to the proximity of linguistic exposure.
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