Syntactic priming in language production Export

@article{citeulike:259639, abstract = { People have a tendency to repeat the types of sentences they use during language production. Recent experimental work has shown that this phenomenon is at least partly due to 'syntactic priming', whereby the act of processing an utterance with a particular form facilitates processing a subsequent utterance with the same or a related form. In this review, we first provide an overview of the evidence for syntactic priming. The review will then explore the implications of this research for three different areas of language theory: the possible functional significance of syntactic priming in coordinating speakers during dialogue, the mechanisms underlying sentence production, and the nature of linguistic representation.}, author = {Pickering, M. J. and Branigan, H. P.}, citeulike-article-id = {259639}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01293-0}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/13646613/1999/00000003/00000004/art01293}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VH9-3WRJ8PP-N/2/9aa43c5ecd9feb1a8b19a6bfa66726c5}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01293-0}, issn = {1364-6613}, journal = {Trends in Cognitive Sciences}, keywords = {comprehension, priming, sentence, syntactic, syntax}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {136--141}, posted-at = {2005-07-20 00:14:53}, priority = {2}, title = {Syntactic priming in language production}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01293-0}, volume = {3}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:259639 L3 - citeulike-article-id:259639 N2 - People have a tendency to repeat the types of sentences they use during language production. Recent experimental work has shown that this phenomenon is at least partly due to 'syntactic priming', whereby the act of processing an utterance with a particular form facilitates processing a subsequent utterance with the same or a related form. In this review, we first provide an overview of the evidence for syntactic priming. The review will then explore the implications of this research for three different areas of language theory: the possible functional significance of syntactic priming in coordinating speakers during dialogue, the mechanisms underlying sentence production, and the nature of linguistic representation. IS - 4 JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences SN - 1364-6613 EP - 141 TI - Syntactic priming in language production VL - 3 SP - 136 KW - comprehension KW - priming KW - sentence KW - syntactic KW - syntax AU - Pickering, MJ AU - Branigan, HP PY - 1999/04/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01293-0 ER -