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Syntactic priming of relative clause attachments: persistence of structural configuration in sentence production.
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Three sentence completion experiments will be reported in which participants had to generate German equivalents of 'the servant of the actress who...' (NP-of-NP-RC) constructions. Target fragments (which were unconstrained as to whether the relative ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Oct
in Journal: Cognition
(Language : eng)
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1. Cognition.
2003 Oct;89(3):179-205
Syntactic priming of relative clause attachments: persistence of structural configuration in sentence production.
Scheepers C
Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, UK. c.scheepers@dundee.ac.uk
Three sentence completion experiments will be reported in which participants had to generate German equivalents of "the servant of the actress who..." (NP-of-NP-RC) constructions. Target fragments (which were unconstrained as to whether the relative pronoun permitted high or low attachment) were preceded by constrained prime fragments, which were either structurally congruent with the targets (Experiments 1 and 2) or structurally incongruent with the targets (anaphoric adverbial clauses rather than relative clauses (RCs), Experiment 3). While the first two experiments established reliable repetition of RC attachments between primes and targets, Experiment 3 failed to obtain a significant priming effect, indicating that RC attachment priming is dependent on a syntactic overlap between primes and targets. The results suggest a tendency of language producers to retain hierarchical syntactic relations over consecutive trials. Current models of syntactic priming in production do not offer an explanatory mechanism for this kind of observation as they presently stand.
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| Christoph | Scheepers | C |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, UK. c.scheepers@dundee.ac.uk
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