The lexical boost is an increase in structural priming with overlapping elements like verbs. Residual activation priming theories argue that the boost is an automatic side effect of sentence planning. In contrast, explicit memory theories of the boost argue that it is the result of a non-automatic explicit memory retrieval. These theories were contrasted in Japanese by including a prime memory task in a structural priming study. Structural priming was found for both datives and passives, but no lexical boost was found, and one possible reason was that explicit memory for the prime structure was weak. In a follow-up study, priming was found in a sentence-completion task, but there was no lexical boost. The existence of abstract priming and the lack of a lexical boost in these studies falsify theories that argue that verb overlap automatically creates a boost under conditions that exhibit abstract priming.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218241298250 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Phonetic retuning to idiosyncrasies in word onsets: The interplay of lexical context and prediction.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
December 2024
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Listeners can use both lexical context (i.e., lexical knowledge activated by the word itself) and lexical predictions based on the content of a preceding sentence to adjust their phonetic categories to speaker idiosyncrasies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe lexical boost is not an automatic part of sentence production: Evidence from Japanese structural priming.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
December 2024
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
The lexical boost is an increase in structural priming with overlapping elements like verbs. Residual activation priming theories argue that the boost is an automatic side effect of sentence planning. In contrast, explicit memory theories of the boost argue that it is the result of a non-automatic explicit memory retrieval.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCognate beginnings to bilingual lexical acquisition.
Child Dev
January 2025
Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Recent studies suggest that cognateness boosts bilingual lexical acquisition. This study proposes an account in which language co-activation accelerates accumulation of word-learning instances across languages. This account predicts a larger cognate facilitation for words in the lower-exposure language than in the higher-exposure language, as the former receive co-activation from their translations more frequently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLexically-specific syntactic restrictions in second-language speakers.
J Mem Lang
February 2024
Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
In two structural priming experiments, we investigated the representations of lexically-specific syntactic restrictions of English verbs for highly proficient and immersed second language (L2) speakers of English. We considered the interplay of two possible mechanisms: generalization from the first language (L1) and statistical learning within the L2 (both of abstract structure and of lexically-specific information). In both experiments, L2 speakers with either Germanic or Romance languages as L1 were primed to produce dispreferred double-object structures involving non-alternating dative verbs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopmental surface dyslexia and dysgraphia in a child with corpus callosum agenesis: an approach to diagnosis and treatment.
Cogn Neuropsychol
September 2024
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Article Synopsis
- The case study focuses on a 10-year-old girl with complete corpus callosum agenesis, who displayed average intelligence but significant difficulties in reading and writing.
- A targeted spelling treatment improved her ability to spell and read irregular words, showing lasting benefits beyond the trained material.
- Neuroimaging revealed enhanced connectivity in the brain, suggesting that alternative pathways can support reading and writing functions in the absence of the corpus callosum.
Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!