The Relationship between Syntactic Satiation and Syntactic Priming: A First Look

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 8; p. 1851
• Main Authors: Do, Monica L., Kaiser, Elsi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 25.10.2017
• Subjects: acceptability judgments; experimental syntax; island effects; processing difficulty; Psychology; satiation; syntactic priming; acceptability judgments; island effects; experimental syntax; processing difficulty; syntactic priming; satiation
• ISSN: 1664-1078; 1664-1078
• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01851

Syntactic satiation is the phenomenon where some sentences that initially seem ungrammatical appear more acceptable after repeated exposures (Snyder, 2000). We investigated satiation by manipulating two factors known to affect syntactic priming, a phenomenon where recent exposure to a grammatical st...