Priming Effects in Combinatory Categorial Grammar

This paper presents a corpus-based account of structural priming in human sentence processing, focusing on the role that syntactic representations play in such an account. We estimate the strength of structural priming effects from a corpus of spontaneous spoken dialogue, annotated syntactically with Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) derivations. This methodology allows us to test a range of predictions that CCG makes about priming. In particular, we present evidence for priming between lexical and syntactic categories encoding partially satisfied subcategorization frames, and we show that priming effects exist both for incremental and normal-form CCG derivations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: David Reitter, Julia Hockenmaier, Frank Keller
• Keywords: EMNLP 2006, EMNLP 2007, Priming Effects, Structural Priming, Structural Priming Effects