Van Gompel, Roger
(2022).
Structural Priming of Adjunct Position, 2017-2022.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Service.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-855892
Previous studies investigating structural priming and the lexical boost have generally examined priming of argument structures such as in ditransitives (e.g., Pickering & Branigan, 1998) and active/passive sentences (e.g., Bock et al., 1992). In order to investigate how adjunct structures are represented, we conducted four structural priming experiments. In Experiments 1 and 3, we manipulated the position of an adverb within the prime sentence (e.g., “the driver frequently shaved” vs. “the driver shaved frequently”), whereas in Experiments 2 and 4, we manipulated the position of a temporal phrase (e.g., “before breakfast the driver stretched” vs. “the driver stretched before breakfast”). We also manipulated whether the prime verb was repeated in the target (Experiments 1 and 2) and whether the adverb or temporal phrase adjunct was repeated (respectively Experiments 3 and 4). Participants read the prime sentence aloud and then produced a target sentence by describing a picture (e.g., of a sailor shaving) using a word or words written underneath it (e.g., “before breakfast”). In all experiments, structural priming occurred in the absence of any word repetition, but the priming was stronger when either the verb, the adverb or the temporal phrase was repeated. This suggests that the position of adjunct phrases is associated with all (content) words in the sentence.
Data description (abstract)
Four experiments investigated structural priming of adjunct phrase position in a sentence in order to investigate how they are represented. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the position of an adverb within the prime sentence: it appeared either before the verb (The driver frequently shaved) or after it (The driver shaved frequently). Participants read the prime sentence aloud and then described a target picture using a word or words underneath, for example, a picture of a sailor shaving with the word “carefully” underneath it. The target verb was either the same as in the prime (both “shaved”) or different (“stretched” and “shaved”). In Experiment 2, we manipulated the position of a temporal phrase in the prime sentence: it appeared either at the beginning of the sentence (e.g., “before breakfast the driver stretched”) or at the end (“the driver stretched before breakfast”). As in Experiment 1, we also manipulated verb repetition between the prime and target. Experiments 3 and 4 were the same as Experiments 1 and 2 respectively, but instead of manipulating verb repetition, we manipulated the repetition of either the adverb (Experiment 3) or the temporal phrase (Experiment 4).
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Sponsors: |
Economic and Social Research Council
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Grant reference: |
ES/P001866/1
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Topic classification: |
Psychology
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Keywords: |
LINGUISTICS, PSYCHOLOGY
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Project title: |
An Experimental Investigation of Syntactic Priming and the Lexical Boost in Language Production
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Grant holders: |
Roger Van Gompel, Leila Kantola
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Project dates: |
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1 August 2017 | 31 May 2022 |
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Date published: |
21 Jul 2022 15:54
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Last modified: |
21 Jul 2022 15:54
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1 August 2017 | 31 May 2022 |
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Geographical area: |
United Kingdom |
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United Kingdom |
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No Spatial Unit |
Data collection method: |
Behavioural experiment. Participants were recruited using the Prolific or SONA Systems and tested online using the experiment software Gorilla. They were all native speakers of English, residents of the UK, had no language- or literacy-related disorders and were between 18 and 35 years of age. Forty-eight participants took part in each experiment. The study was approved by the University of Dundee ethics committee and all participants gave informed consent to take part in the study. In all experiments, participants first read aloud a prime sentence and then produced a target sentence by describing a picture using a word or words written underneath it. |
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Individual |
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Numeric, Text |
Type of data: |
Experimental data
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Resource language: |
English |
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Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
Participants were recruited using either Prolific or SONA and tested online. Participants' recorded productions of the target sentences were transcribed and scored. They were scored according to whether the adverb appeared before or after the verb (Experiments 1 and 3) or whether the temporal phrase appeared at the beginning or the end of the sentence (Experiments 2 and 4).
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Notes on access: |
The Data Collection is available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access.
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Publisher: |
UK Data Service
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Last modified: |
21 Jul 2022 15:54
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