Syntactic priming in American Sign Language

PloS One
Matthew L HallR I Mayberry

Abstract

Psycholinguistic studies of sign language processing provide valuable opportunities to assess whether language phenomena, which are primarily studied in spoken language, are fundamentally shaped by peripheral biology. For example, we know that when given a choice between two syntactically permissible ways to express the same proposition, speakers tend to choose structures that were recently used, a phenomenon known as syntactic priming. Here, we report two experiments testing syntactic priming of a noun phrase construction in American Sign Language (ASL). Experiment 1 shows that second language (L2) signers with normal hearing exhibit syntactic priming in ASL and that priming is stronger when the head noun is repeated between prime and target (the lexical boost effect). Experiment 2 shows that syntactic priming is equally strong among deaf native L1 signers, deaf late L1 learners, and hearing L2 signers. Experiment 2 also tested for, but did not find evidence of, phonological or semantic boosts to syntactic priming in ASL. These results show that despite the profound differences between spoken and signed languages in terms of how they are produced and perceived, the psychological representation of sentence structure (as assesse...Continue Reading

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Oct 18, 2018·Journal of Child Language·Qi Cheng, Rachel I Mayberry
May 20, 2020·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP·Mengxing WangMartin J Pickering
Jan 19, 2018·The Behavioral and Brain Sciences·Holly P Branigan, Martin J Pickering
Jan 19, 2018·The Behavioral and Brain Sciences·Matthew L HallVictor S Ferreira
Jan 17, 2020·Journal of Memory and Language·Nicholas GrubergVictor S Ferreira

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