Structural priming in comprehension of relative clause sentences: In search of 
a frequency x regularity interaction

Hutton, J.; Kidd, Evan

doi:10.1075/tilar.8.11hut

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Add to Basket

Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released

Book Chapter

Structural priming in comprehension of relative clause sentences: In search of a frequency x regularity interaction

MPS-Authors

There are no MPG-Authors in the publication available

External Resource

No external resources are shared

Fulltext (restricted access)

There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.

Fulltext (public)

HuttonKidd_2011.pdf
(Publisher version), 150KB

Supplementary Material (public)

There is no public supplementary material available

Citation

Hutton, J., & Kidd, E. (2011). Structural priming in comprehension of relative clause sentences: In search of a frequency x regularity interaction. In E. Kidd (Ed.), The acquisition of relative clauses: Processing, typology and function (pp. 227-242). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002E-2D89-7

Abstract

The current chapter discusses a structural priming experiment that investigated the on-line processing of English subject- and object- relative clauses. Sixty-one monolingual English-speaking adults participated in a self-paced reading experiment where they read prime-target pairs that fully crossed the relativised element within the relative clause (subject- versus object) across prime and target sentences. Following probabilistic theories of sentence processing, which predict that low frequency structures like object relatives are subject to greater priming effects due to their marked status, it was hypothesised that the normally-observed subject RC processing advantage would be eliminated following priming. The hypothesis was supported, identifying an important role for structural frequency in the processing of relative clause structures.