Syntactic Facilitation in Agrammatic Sentence Production

Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Kolk, Herman

doi:10.1006/brln.1997.1905

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“…This result is in line with findings showing that less skilled speakers generally show larger priming effects than highly proficient speakers: adult aphasics (Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998); children with SLI (Leonard et al, 2000); children who stutter (Anderson & Conture, 2004); second language learners (Flett, 2006). Priming may be larger in young children because their smaller linguistic repertoire produces less competition among structures to convey meaning (Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998;Pickering & Branigan, 1999), because priming is stronger earlier in learning (Chang et al, 2006), because priming is stronger for less frequent structures and passives are less frequent in children's repertoire than adults' (V.S. , or because the pragmatic felicity conditions are not well understood by beginning learners (Flett, 2006).…”

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“…On a spreading activation model of sentence production (Dell, 1986), hearing a structure activates a syntactic representation in the speaker's grammar (Bencini, 2002;Branigan, 2007;Branigan et al, 1995;Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998;Pickering & Branigan, 1998). On a procedural learning account, priming strengthens a procedure linking a syntactic representation with its use (Bock & Griffin, 2000).…”

Section: Syntactic Priming and Learningmentioning

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Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from language production and comprehension

Bencini

Valian

2008

Journal of Memory and Language

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We use syntactic priming to test the abstractness of the sentence representations of young 3-year-olds (35-42 months). In describing pictures with inanimate participants, 18 children primed with passives produced more passives (11 with a strict scoring scheme, 16 with lax scoring) than did 18 children primed with actives (2 on either scheme) or 12 children who received no priming (0). Priming was comparable to that reported for older children and adults. Comprehension of reversible passives with animate participants before and after priming was above chance but did not improve as a result of priming. Young 3-year-olds represent sentences abstractly, have syntactic representations for noun, verb, ''surface subject", and ''surface object", have semantic representations for ''agent" and ''patient", and flexibly map the relation between syntax and semantics. Taken together with research on syntactic categories in 2-year-olds, our results provide empirical support for continuity in language acquisition.

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Section: Syntactic Priming and Learningmentioning

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Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from language production and comprehension

Bencini

Valian

2008

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…However, the ability of caused-motion constructions to prime prepositional datives in both speakers (Bock & Loebell, 1990;Potter & Lombardi, 1998) and a model trained with error-driven learning (Chang et al, 2000) suggests that effective primes need not have structural alternatives. Furthermore, minimal correlations between verb-construction co-occurrence frequency and magnitude of priming provide no support for the idea that priming magnitude varies with verb flexibility Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998b). However, regardless of the verb used, uncommon constructions may show larger structural priming effects (e.g., Hartsuiker & Westerberg, 2000).…”

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Conceptual structure modulates structural priming in the production of complex sentences

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Weinstein-Tull

2003

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Speakers tend to reproduce syntactic structures that they have recently comprehended or produced. This structural or syntactic priming occurs despite differences in the particular conceptual or event roles expressed in prime and target sentences (Bock & Loebell, 1990). In two sentence recall studies, we used the tendency of speakers to paraphrase the finite complements of object-raising verbs as infinitive complements (e.g., "John believed that Mary was nice" as "John believed Mary to be nice") to test whether an additional conceptual role would affect priming. Prime constructions with identical constituent orders as object-raising infinitives but an additional conceptual role ("John persuaded Mary to be nice") resulted in fewer paraphrases. Contrasts with other constructions suggest that the critical difference between primes was this extra conceptual role. Thus, subtle differences in conceptual structures can affect how speakers grammatically encode message elements.The meaning of an utterance constrains the form of its expression. For instance, a speaker who wishes to talk about one thing affecting another thing is more likely to create a sentence with two noun phrases than a sentence with only one noun phrase. Given information about what a speaker intends to express and context of the utterance, there is a limited set of constructions that the speaker can felicitously use. Yet, despite the many systematic meaning-form correlations present in languages, the mappings between them are not always one-to-one (for discussion, see e.g., Givón, 1995; Goldberg, 1995; Lambrecht, 1994;Smith, 2000). Many messages can be expressed by more than one sentence structure. One of the puzzles of sentence production is how utterances end up with the structures they do.In the present study, we used the phenomenon of structural priming to explore the relationships between meaning and form as they relate to constructing sentences. In the

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“…Given EA's consistent production of well-formed, written, tense-marked sentences with regular verbs, his ability to integrate semantic with syntactic information is unlikely to be impaired. Hartsuiker and Kolk (1998) recently reported that patients with Broca's aphasia demonstrate enhanced syntactic priming of verbal output, even for relatively syntactically complex sentences, such as passives. They argue that their data provide evidence that the limitations in Broca's aphasic patients' verbal production are attributable to a resource limitation brought about by a temporally constrained processing capacity, since the limitation ''.…”

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Representation of Linguistic Rules in the Brain: Evidence from Training an Aphasic Patient to Produce Past Tense Verb Morphology

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Syntactic Facilitation in Agrammatic Sentence Production

Cited by 147 publications

References 44 publications

Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from language production and comprehension

Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from language production and comprehension

Conceptual structure modulates structural priming in the production of complex sentences

Representation of Linguistic Rules in the Brain: Evidence from Training an Aphasic Patient to Produce Past Tense Verb Morphology

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