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Priming effects in combinatory categorial grammar

Year: 2006

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents a corpus-based account of structural priming in human sentence processing, focusing on the role that syntactic representations play in such an account. We estimate the strength of structural priming effects from a corpus of spontaneous spoken dialogue, annotated syntactically with Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) derivations. This methodology allows us to test a range of predictions that CCG makes about priming. In particular, we present evidence for priming between lexical and syntactic categories encoding partially satisfied sub-categorization frames, and we show that priming effects exist both for incremental and normal-form CCG derivations.

Source: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

DOI: 10.3115/1610075.1610119

Authors: David Reitter, Julia Hockenmaier, Frank Keller

Institutions: University of Edinburgh, University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, Leverhulme Trust

Award: ITR: Language, Learning, and Modeling Biological Sequences