title: The influence of verb-bound syntactic preferences on the processing of syntactic structures.
abstract: Speakers sometimes repeat syntactic structures across sentences, a phenomenon called syntactic priming. We investigated the influence of verb-bound syntactic preferences on syntactic priming effects in response choices and response latencies for German ditransitive sentences. In the response choices we found inverse preference effects: There were stronger syntactic priming effects for primes in the less preferred structure, given the syntactic preference of the prime verb. In the response latencies we found positive preference effects: There were stronger syntactic priming effects for primes in the more preferred structure, given the syntactic preference of the prime verb. These findings provide further support for the idea that syntactic processing is lexically guided.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
authors.forename: Katrien
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Segaert
authors.affiliation: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen.
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen.
authors.forename: Mira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cladder-Micus
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hagoort
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult