Updating constructions: additive effects of prior and current experience during sentence production.

ABSTRACT: While much earlier work has indicated that prior verb bias from lifelong language experience influences language processing, recent findings highlight the fact that verb biases induced during lab-based exposure sessions also influence processing. We investigated the nature of updating, i.e., how prior and current experience might interact in guiding subsequent sentence production. Participants underwent a short training session where we manipulated the bias of known English dative verbs. The prior bias of each verb for the double-object (DO) versus the prepositional-object (PO) dative was estimated using a corpus. Current verb bias was counterbalanced and controlled experimentally. Bayesian mixed-effects logistic models of participants' responses (DO or PO) during subsequent free-choice pr

SUBMITTER: Thothathiri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10630066 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature