The role of explicit memory in syntactic persistence: Effects of lexical cueing and load on sentence memory and sentence production.

ABSTRACT: Speakers' memory of sentence structure can persist and modulate the syntactic choices of subsequent utterances (i.e., structural priming). Much research on structural priming posited a multifactorial account by which an implicit learning process and a process related to explicit memory jointly contribute to the priming effect. Here, we tested two predictions from that account: (1) that lexical repetition facilitates the retrieval of sentence structures from memory; (2) that priming is partly driven by a short-term explicit memory mechanism with limited resources. In two pairs of structural priming and sentence structure memory experiments, we examined the effects of structural priming and its modulation by lexical repetition as a function of cognitive load in native Dutch speakers. Cogniti

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7643978 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature