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The persistence of priming : exploring long-lasting syntactic priming effects in children and adults
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Messenger, Katherine (2021) The persistence of priming : exploring long-lasting syntactic priming effects in children and adults. Cognitive Science, 45 (6). e13005. doi:10.1111/cogs.13005 ISSN 0364-0213.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13005
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 | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition, Cognitive psychology, Priming (Psychology) , Psycholinguistics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cognitive Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | Psychology Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0364-0213 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 45 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e13005 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/cogs.13005 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2021 Cognitive Science Society LLC | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 May 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 June 2021 | ||||||||
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