2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02180.x
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Memory for Syntax Despite Amnesia

Abstract: Syntactic persistence is a tendency for speakers to reproduce sentence structures independently of accompanying meanings, words, or sounds. The memory mechanisms behind syntactic persistence are not fully understood. Though some properties of syntactic persistence suggest a role for procedural memory, current evidence suggests that procedural memory (unlike declarative memory) does not maintain the abstract, relational features that are inherent to syntactic structures. To evaluate the contribution of procedur… Show more

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“…Finding long-term priming effects (particularly priming effects over very long ranges of time) would thus be quite damaging to the Pickering and Branigan (1998) account. In addition, the finding of very long-range priming effects would fit with Bock and colleagues' contention that structural priming is an example of implicit learning within the language production system (Bock & Griffin, 2000;Ferreira et al, 2008). This outcome would put constraints on the type of architecture that could be used as the basis for a general model of language production (e.g., by suggesting that language production is grounded in an error-driven learning mechanism such as the one employed by Chang et al, 2006).…”
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“…Finding long-term priming effects (particularly priming effects over very long ranges of time) would thus be quite damaging to the Pickering and Branigan (1998) account. In addition, the finding of very long-range priming effects would fit with Bock and colleagues' contention that structural priming is an example of implicit learning within the language production system (Bock & Griffin, 2000;Ferreira et al, 2008). This outcome would put constraints on the type of architecture that could be used as the basis for a general model of language production (e.g., by suggesting that language production is grounded in an error-driven learning mechanism such as the one employed by Chang et al, 2006).…”
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“…When a token of one construction (DO) is produced, the model weights are tuned such that it will be more likely to produce the same construction on a subsequent sentence. Chang et al (2006) thus see structural priming as an example of implicit learning within the language production system (see also Bock & Griffin, 2000;Ferreira, Bock, Wilson, & Cohen, 2008). According to this account, it is expected that structural priming effects should be somewhat longlasting, as the change in model weights that result from choosing one construction over another (e.g., choosing the DO construction over the PO construction) will remain in place until the next time the same syntactic choice is faced.…”
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“…The evidence that priming is learning is that the effect of a prime persists undiminished over time and over unrelated sentences (see [28] for review). The evidence that the learning is implicit is that it occurs in amnesic speakers who have no explicit memory of the prime sentence [29]. Finally, the evidence that the implicit learning that characterizes structural priming is based on prediction error comes from demonstrations that less common (more surprising) prime structures lead to more priming than common ones [30,31].…”
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“…1 Note that Kolk (1998) andFerreira, Bock, Wilson, andCohen (2008) both tested non-young adults as controls for clinical patients (n = 12 aged ~28-67 and n = 4 aged 50-57, respectively). The latter, though not the former, found evidence of syntactic priming; neither study investigated lexical boost.…”
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