Syntactic Priming Effects on Sentence Production Time in Korean(L1) and English(L2)

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (84) ◽  
pp. 89-113
Author(s):  
Boon-Joo Park
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Production ◽  
Syntactic Priming ◽  
Production Time ◽  
Priming Effects

scholarly journals Evidence for robust abstract syntactic representations in production before age three

2020 ◽  
pp. 014272372090591
Author(s):  
Anouschka Foltz ◽  
Karolin Knopf ◽  
Kristina Jonas ◽  
Petra Jaecks ◽  
Prisca Stenneken
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Syntactic Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Phonological Working Memory ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Priming Process

This study investigated whether we can find reliable comprehension-to-production syntactic priming effects in children aged 2;0 to 2;11 and how phonological working memory and sentence production skills relate to the syntactic priming process. A finding of reliable syntactic priming effects would provide strong evidence that children’s syntactic representations are abstracted over individual lexical items. To test children at this young age, they were primed with simple and early-acquired transitive (e.g., tickling (a) baby) and unergative intransitive (e.g., running) syntactic structures. Children aged 2;7 to 2;11, primed with alternating prime structures, revealed a reliable syntactic priming effect. In addition, phonological working memory (moderated by age) and sentence production skills positively affected transitive productions. Children aged 2;0 to 2;6, primed either with alternating or cumulative prime structures, showed no priming effect. Together, the data indicate that children have robust abstract syntactic representations for the tested structures before age three and that both phonological working memory and production skills relate to children’s syntactic priming behavior, albeit in different ways.

scholarly journals Syntactic priming and the lexical boost effect during sentence production and sentence comprehension: An fMRI study

2013 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien Segaert ◽  
Gerard Kempen ◽  
Karl Magnus Petersson ◽  
Peter Hagoort
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Syntactic Priming ◽  
Fmri Study

EXPRESS: When the independence of syntactic representation meets the sentence processing of Mandarin: Evidence from syntactic priming

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110449
Author(s):  
Keshu Xiang ◽  
Hui Chang ◽  
Lu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Syntactic Priming ◽  
Double Object ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Object Construction ◽  
Syntactic Representation ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Prepositional Object

There is no consensus on whether syntactic representation is independent of semantic representation in Mandarin. In four experiments, we adopted the syntactic priming paradigm to investigate the independence of syntactic representation in Mandarin. Experiments 1 and 2 investigated the priming effects of double object construction (DO) and prepositional object construction (PO) with the ditransitive verb being repeated across the prime and target. Experiment 1 showed two-way priming effects of DO and PO. Experiment 2 showed that the syntactic priming effects persisted regardless of whether the semantic features (animacy of the Theme) matched across the prime and target or not. Furthermore, such effects persisted in Experiments 3 and 4 where the ditransitive verb across the prime and target was not repeated. Taken together, these findings provide evidence that syntactic/semantic independence is universal and favored over the traditional Chinese grammar account, which claims that the syntactic representation of Mandarin is not independent of the semantic representation.

Syntactic priming effects in aphasia: An investigation of local syntactic dependencies

1991 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila E. Blumstein ◽  
William P. Milberg ◽  
Barbara Dworetzky ◽  
Allyson Rosen ◽  
Felicia Gershberg
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Syntactic Dependencies

Syntactic priming in spoken sentence production – an online study

Cognition ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Smith ◽  
Linda Wheeldon
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Production ◽  
Syntactic Priming ◽  
Online Study

scholarly journals Syntactic Priming Effects and their Underlying Mechanisms in Language Production and Comprehension

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1370
Author(s):  
Reza Raissi ◽  
Neda Hedayat ◽  
Fakhereh Kazemirad
Keyword(s):  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Syntactic Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
The Relationship

Exposure to a syntactic structure influences the way we process a similar syntactic structure in language production and comprehension in what has been called ‘syntactic priming’. Syntactic priming is a robust phenomenon which can be observed in spoken and written production, with a range of syntactic constructions in laboratory tasks and naturally occurring samples of speech, in many languages, and also across languages within the same speaker. It has been used as a vehicle for exploring language production, language comprehension, and the relationship between them. Research in syntactic priming has made it the dominant means of investigating the processes involved in language production and comprehension. Some researchers propose that there are distinct mechanisms underlying the production and comprehension of syntactic structures; however, other researchers suggest that the same mechanisms underlie syntactic priming in production and comprehension. Thus, the mechanisms underlying syntactic priming effects in production and comprehension are still under debate. Moreover, although a fairly large body of research has addressed syntactic priming in production or in comprehension, there are few studies that consider and compare priming effects in both of these modalities. Therefore, the current study reviews the literature on syntactic priming in production and contrasts these findings to those in comprehension. It also provides an overview of syntactic priming effects and mechanisms underlying these effects in both production and comprehension.

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