The Persistence of Priming : Exploring Long‐lasting Syntactic Priming Effects in Children and Adults

Messenger, Katherine (2021) The Persistence of Priming : Exploring Long‐lasting Syntactic Priming Effects in Children and Adults. Cognitive Science, 45 (6): e13005. ISSN 0364-0213

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Abstract

The implicit learning account of syntactic priming proposes that the same mechanism underlies syntactic priming and language development, providing a link between a child and adult language processing. The present experiment tested predictions of this account by comparing the persistence of syntactic priming effects in children and adults. Four-year-olds and adults first described transitive events after hearing transitive primes, constituting an exposure phase that established priming effects for passives. The persistence of this priming effect was measured in a test phase as participants described further transitive events but no longer heard primes. Their production of passives was compared to a baseline group who described the same pictures without any exposure to primes. Neither immediate nor long-term priming effects differed between children and adults but both children and adults showed significant immediate and persistent effects of the priming when the test phase occurred immediately after the exposure phase and when a short delay separated the exposure and test phase. The implications of these results for an implicit learning account of syntactic priming are discussed.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Cognitive Science
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Research Output Funding/yes_externally_funded
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?? syntactic primingimplicit learninglanguage developmentpassivesyes - externally fundedartificial intelligencehuman factors and ergonomicslinguistics and languagelanguage and linguisticscognitive neuroscienceexperimental and cognitive psychology ??
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185688
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Deposited On:
13 Feb 2023 10:25
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Yes
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Published
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15 Jul 2024 23:31