Is Syntactic Priming from Multiple Speakers Stronger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerime Eylul Eski (0009-0006-4452-2558), Luca Onnis (0000-0001-6843-6554) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 137 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages9040137 |
| OpenAlex | W4394619091 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
Syntactic priming in dialogue occurs when exposure to a particular syntactic structure implicitly induces a speaker's subsequent preference for the same syntactic structures in their own speech. Here, we asked whether this priming effect is boosted when individuals are primed by several different speakers as opposed to one. In an initial baseline session involving a picture description task, we assessed adult participants' production of double object/DO (vs. prepositional/PO) dative and passive (vs. active) transitive structures. Subsequently, participants played a picture description and verification game, in turns, with six other players (confederates). During verification turns, confederates primed participants by using DO and passive utterances. Crucially, participants were primed either by a single confederate (single-speaker priming condition, SSP) or by five confederates (multi-speaker priming condition, MSP). Across conditions, the same priming stimuli were presented in the same order, leaving speaker source/variation as the only different feature. The degree to which participants were primed for the target structures compared to baseline was measured. Results indicated a robust priming effect in both conditions. Nevertheless, the increase in the target structures' use did not differ significantly between the SSP and MSP conditions, suggesting that speaker variation did not promote stronger priming
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