TY - JOUR
T1 - No looking back
T2 - the effects of visual cues on the lexical boost in structural priming
AU - van Gompel, Roger P.G.
AU - Wakeford, Laura J.
AU - Kantola, Leila
N1 - ©2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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Data availability statement:
The experimental data can be downloaded via the Open Science Framework at http://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/2MK4V
PY - 2023/1/2
Y1 - 2023/1/2
N2 - Four structural priming experiments investigated the lexical boost effect in structural priming. In two experiments, we tested whether repeating the subject in prepositional object or double object ditransitive structures boosted structural priming. In two other experiments, we manipulated the repetition of the verb. Repetition of the subject noun affected structural priming, but only when the prime remained visible while participants produced the target sentence. In contrast, repetition of the verb boosted priming regardless of whether participants could see the prime and target simultaneously. We conclude that the subject noun repetition effect is more strategic in nature than the verb boost effect. Structures are automatically associated with the verb, their syntactic head, whereas repetition of the subject noun only affects priming if the presentation method makes the repetition highly explicit.
AB - Four structural priming experiments investigated the lexical boost effect in structural priming. In two experiments, we tested whether repeating the subject in prepositional object or double object ditransitive structures boosted structural priming. In two other experiments, we manipulated the repetition of the verb. Repetition of the subject noun affected structural priming, but only when the prime remained visible while participants produced the target sentence. In contrast, repetition of the verb boosted priming regardless of whether participants could see the prime and target simultaneously. We conclude that the subject noun repetition effect is more strategic in nature than the verb boost effect. Structures are automatically associated with the verb, their syntactic head, whereas repetition of the subject noun only affects priming if the presentation method makes the repetition highly explicit.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/2MK4V
U2 - 10.1080/23273798.2022.2036782
DO - 10.1080/23273798.2022.2036782
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85125132580
SN - 2327-3798
VL - 38
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
JF - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
IS - 1
ER -