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Martin CORLEY, Ph.D.
University of Edinburgh
SYNTACTIC PRIMING OF PRODUCTION:
ARGUMENTS, LINEAR PRECEDENCE, JAVA, AND GERMAN
Current theories of human language production tend to differentiate
between a (syntactic) functional level and a (surface) positional level
in the generation of sentences, where functional selection precedes and
constrains positional processing. In this talk, evidence is presented
from a syntactic priming study in German, where position, function, and
type of constituent are orthogonally specified for monotransitive and
ditransitive verbs. In contrast to findings for English (in which these
factors are confounded) it will be shown that previous generation of
a ditransitive structure can inhibit the production of a further
ditransitive when the order of potential arguments differs between
prime and target. The results suggest that positional processing must
at the least interact with functional processing in production, and
point to the importance of cross-linguistic evidence in the formation
of models of language processing.
Zeit: Donnerstag, 15.April, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1.
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