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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Structural priming is a key phenomenon in sentence production research.
  • Existing theories of structure building offer explanations for priming effects.
  • A new theory posits that dependency structures influence compositional units in sentence production.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test predictions of a new theory of structure building in sentence production.
  • To investigate the factors influencing dative structural priming, specifically the lexical boost.
  • To examine the role of filler-gap dependencies and tense/aspect in dative priming.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted five recall-based structural priming experiments.
  • Manipulated the presence of direct object filler-gap dependencies in prime and target sentences.
  • Varied the tense and aspect between prime and target sentences.
  • Analyzed the occurrence of the lexical boost in dative priming under different conditions.

Main Results:

  • The lexical boost for dative priming was observed when both prime and target sentences contained direct object filler-gap dependencies.
  • The lexical boost was absent when only target sentences had object filler-gap dependencies.
  • The lexical boost was not found when prime and target sentences had object filler-gap dependencies but mismatched tenses/aspects.
  • The lexical boost was present even with mismatched tenses/aspects when neither sentence contained object filler-gap dependencies.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the proposed theory, which links compositional unit size to sentence dependency structures.
  • The results highlight the crucial role of shared dependency structures in mediating the lexical boost in dative priming.
  • The study demonstrates that sentence production is sensitive to the interplay between lexical information and syntactic structure.