Do lemmas speak German?: A verb position effect in German structural priming
Lexicalized theories of syntax often assume that verb-structure regularities are mediated by lemmas, which abstract over variation in verb tense and aspect. German syntax seems to challenge this assumption, because verb position depends on tense and aspect. To examine how German speakers link these...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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July 2015
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Cognitive science
Year: 2015, Volume: 39, Issue: 5, Pages: 1113-1130 |
| ISSN: | 1551-6709 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cogs.12184 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12184 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cogs.12184 
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| Author Notes: | Franklin Chang, Michael Baumann, Sandra Pappert, Hartmut Fitz |
| Summary: | Lexicalized theories of syntax often assume that verb-structure regularities are mediated by lemmas, which abstract over variation in verb tense and aspect. German syntax seems to challenge this assumption, because verb position depends on tense and aspect. To examine how German speakers link these elements, a structural priming study was performed which varied syntactic structure, verb position (encoded by tense and aspect), and verb overlap. Abstract structural priming was found, both within and across verb position, but priming was larger when the verb position was the same between prime and target. Priming was boosted by verb overlap, but there was no interaction with verb position. The results can be explained by a lemma model where tense and aspect are linked to structural choices in German. Since the architecture of this lemma model is not consistent with results from English, a connectionist model was developed which could explain the cross-linguistic variation in the production system. Together, these findings support the view that language learning plays an important role in determining the nature of structural priming in different languages. |
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| Item Description: | Online veröffentlicht: 12. Oktober 2014 Gesehen am 20.08.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1551-6709 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cogs.12184 |