Syntactic Priming During Sentence Comprehension: Evidence for the Lexical Boost

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dc.contributor.authorTraxler, Matthew J.
dc.contributor.authorTooley, Kristen M.
dc.contributor.authorPickering, Martin J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-30T14:02:50Z
dc.date.available2020-04-30T14:02:50Z
dc.date.issued2014-07
dc.description.abstractSyntactic priming occurs when structural information from one sentence influences processing of a subsequently encountered sentence (Bock, 1986; Ledoux et al., 2007). This article reports 2 eye-tracking experiments investigating the effects of a prime sentence on the processing of a target sentence that shared aspects of syntactic form. The experiments were designed to determine the degree to which lexical overlap between prime and target sentences produced larger effects, comparable to the widely observed "lexical boost" in production experiments (Pickering & Branigan, 1998; Pickering & Ferreira, 2008). The current experiments showed that priming effects during online comprehension were in fact larger when a verb was repeated across the prime and target sentences (see also Tooley et al., 2009). The finding of larger priming effects with lexical repetition supports accounts under which syntactic form representations are connected to individual lexical items (e.g., Tomasello, 2003; Vosse & Kempen, 2000, 2009).
dc.description.departmentPsychology
dc.description.versionThis is the accepted manuscript version of an article published in the <i>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition</i>.
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dc.format.extent30 pages
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dc.identifier.citationTraxler, M. J., Tooley, K. M., & Pickering, M. J. (2014). Syntactic priming during sentence comprehension: Evidence for the lexical boost. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(4), pp. 905-918.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/a0036377
dc.identifier.issn0278-7393
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/9770
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association
dc.sourceJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 905-918.
dc.subjectsentence processing
dc.subjectsyntax
dc.subjectsyntactic priming
dc.subjectreduced relatives
dc.subjectusage-based grammar
dc.subjectunification grammar
dc.subjectparsing
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.titleSyntactic Priming During Sentence Comprehension: Evidence for the Lexical Boost
dc.typeArticle

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