Presentation 2013-08-03
Structural Priming in Japanese Passive Sentence Production : The role of verb repetition
Lan JIN, Ying DENG, Manabu ARAI, Yuki HIROSE,
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Abstract(in English) Previous research on structural priming has reported that the effect of priming is enhanced when the verb is repeated between prime and target in head-initial languages (e.g., Pickering & Branigan, 1998). The present study investigated whether such a lexical boost effect also occurs with Japanese, a head-final language. Two experiments examined this phenomenon with Japanese passive and active structures using a picture description task. The results demonstrated an effect of priming with these structures and more importantly, showed evidence for a lexical boost effect. Our study thus suggests that structural representations of Japanese active and passive structures are associated with the verb irrespective of the position in the structures.
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Keyword(in English) Structural Priming / Passive Sentence / Lexical boost
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Conference Date 2013/7/27(1days)
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Title (in English) Structural Priming in Japanese Passive Sentence Production : The role of verb repetition
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Keyword(1) Structural Priming
Keyword(2) Passive Sentence
Keyword(3) Lexical boost
1st Author's Name Lan JIN
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo()
2nd Author's Name Ying DENG
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
3rd Author's Name Manabu ARAI
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
4th Author's Name Yuki HIROSE
4th Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Date 2013-08-03
Paper # TL2013-27
Volume (vol) vol.113
Number (no) 174
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 5
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