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Building syntactic structure in speaking

J E Tree1, P J Meijer

  • 1University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|February 9, 1999
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This study shows that sentence structure influences speech production, even after a delay. Simple and complex phrases appear to use the same underlying speech production mechanisms.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Speech Production

Background:

  • Syntactic priming, the tendency for speech to adopt the grammatical structure of recently encountered sentences, is a well-documented phenomenon.
  • Previous research has explored syntactic priming using various experimental paradigms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how individuals produce simple and complex phrases in spoken language.
  • To examine the role of abstract syntactic plans in noun phrase production.
  • To determine if simple and complex noun phrases are generated by the same syntactic routines.

Main Methods:

  • A novel immediate recall task was developed.
  • Participants memorized a target sentence, then read a prime sentence, followed by a distractor task.

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  • Recall of the target sentence was assessed after the distractor task.

    • Main Results:

    • The syntactic form of the recalled target sentence was influenced by the prime sentence, replicating the syntactic priming effect.
    • Syntactic priming occurred regardless of whether the prime and target sentences matched in complexity.
    • This suggests that abstract syntactic plans are utilized consistently across simple and complex noun phrases.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings support the hypothesis that simple and complex noun phrases are constructed using shared syntactic routines in speech production.
    • The developed immediate recall task is effective for studying syntactic priming and abstract syntactic planning.