Syntactic priming in spoken sentence production – an online study

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 123 - 164
• Main Authors: Smith, Mark, Wheeldon, Linda
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.02.2001; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition; Cues; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Internet; Language; Linguistics; Male; Online study; Perception; Priming; Production and perception of spoken language; Psycholinguistics; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Sentences; Speech; Spoken sentence production; Syntactic priming; Syntactic Processing; Syntax; Visual Perception; Online study; Syntactic priming; Spoken sentence production; Human; Language; Priming effect; Speech; Cognition; Verbal production; Experimental study; Syntax; Sentence
• ISSN: 0010-0277; 1873-7838
• DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00110-4

Six experiments investigate syntactic priming online via a picture description task in which participants produce target sentences whose initial phrase is syntactically similar or dissimilar to that of the prime sentence produced on the previous trial. In the first experiment it is shown that a synt...