Syntactic Priming As a Test of Argument Structure: A Self-paced Reading Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Using data from a behavioral structural priming experiment, we test two competing theoretical approaches to argument structure, which attribute different configurations to (in)transitive structures. These approaches make different claims about the relationship between unergatives and transitive structures selecting either a DP complement or a small clause complement in structurally unambiguous sentences, thus making different predictions about priming relations between them. Using statistical tools that combine a factorial 6 × 6 within subjects ANOVA, a mixed effects ANCOVA and a linear mixed effects regression model, we report syntactic priming effects in comprehension, which suggest a stronger predictive contribution of a model that supports an interpretive semantics view of syntax, wher

SUBMITTER: Oltra-Massuet I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559723 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature