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1Department of Linguistics,University of Hawaii at Manoa,Honolulu,HI 96822.ogrady@hawaii.eduhttp://ling.hawaii.edu/william-ogrady/.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|January 19, 2018
Summary
Priming reactivates word processing routines directly linking words to meaning, bypassing syntax. This occurs even with subject-verb sequences, which lack syntactic structure, supporting a direct word-to-meaning mapping model.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Science
- Computational Linguistics
Background:
- Priming reveals implicit memory effects in language processing.
- Existing models debate the role of syntactic structure in priming.
- Branigan & Pickering (B&P) propose a
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the role of syntactic structure in word processing routines.
- To test the hypothesis that priming bypasses syntactic mediation.
- To provide evidence for direct mapping between words and semantic representations.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of priming effects in language comprehension.
- Examination of priming relations involving subject-verb sequences.
- Comparison of findings with syntactic constituency theories.
Main Results:
- Priming effects were observed for subject-verb sequences.
- These sequences do not represent syntactic constituents.
- This suggests priming operates independently of syntactic structure.
Conclusions:
- Priming involves direct reactivation of processing routines.
- Syntactic mediation is not required for priming word-to-meaning mappings.
- Findings support models of language processing that bypass syntactic structure.
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