Structural priming is a psycholinguistic paradigm used to study human sentence representations. The study introduces SPAWN, a parser that generates quantitative priming predictions from theoretical syntax. By comparing different theories, the research highlights how SPAWN can adjudicate between competing assumptions about sentence structures. The study focuses on reduced relative clauses in English and demonstrates how parsing decisions are made based on cognitive principles proposed by ACT-R.
The research explores the differences between two syntactic theories, Whiz-Deletion and Participial-Phase, in predicting priming effects for different types of relative clauses. Through experiments with human participants and computational models, the study evaluates the accuracy of these predictions. The results suggest that the Participial-Phase theory better captures human sentence representations compared to the Whiz-Deletion theory.
Overall, the study provides insights into how parsing mechanisms can influence structural priming predictions and sheds light on the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension.
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by Grusha Prasa... at arxiv.org 03-13-2024
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