Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension

Manabu Arai

doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.07.001

Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension

2007-05-01

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Manabu Arai *

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Roger P. G. van Gompel

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Christoph Scheepers

DOI：10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.07.001

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Many studies have shown evidence for syntactic priming during language production (e.g., Bock, 1986). It is often assumed that comprehension and production share similar mechanisms and that priming also occurs during comprehension (e.g., Pickering & Garrod, 2004). Research investigating priming during comprehension (e.g., Branigan, Pickering, & McLean, 2005; Scheepers & Crocker, 2004) has mainly focused on syntactic ambiguities that are very different from the meaning-equivalent structures used in production research. In two experiments, we investigated whether priming during comprehension occurs in ditransitive sentences similar to those used in production research. When the verb was repeated between prime and target, we observed a priming effect similar to that in production. However, we observed no evidence for priming when the verbs were different. Thus, priming during comprehension occurs for very similar structures as priming during production, but in contrast to production, the priming effect is completely lexically dependent. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

language comprehension

sentence processing

syntactic priming

anticipatory eye movements

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