Abstract
The syntactic priming is not only a very important repetitive priming phenomenon, it is also important for studying the syntactic representation and the speech production mechanism. Since the priming is related to the selecting process of the target sentences, it is of serious requirement for both the experimental materials and paradigms. The main questions studied in the syntactic priming correlates with the construction, the syntactic hierarchy and the representation of verbs, etc. Mastering the syntactic priming’s experimental paradigm and knowing the corresponding research questions would be of great significance to studying the syntactic representation and the syntactic teaching in the field of teaching Chinese as a second language.
Highlights
The syntactic priming exists in the processes of both speech production and comprehension (Bock, Dell, Chang, & Onishi, 2007), and this paper will mainly study the syntactic priming’s experimental paradigms related to speech production
By comparing the two viewpoints above, we found that the researchers who insist on that the syntactic priming belongs to the implicit learning think that the sentence production is impacted largely by the syntactic frame, and the lexical and syntactic knowledge are mutually independent; that the researchers who hold the idea that the syntactic priming pertains to the lexical residual activation deem that the lexical activation is the motive for the syntactic priming, and that the sentence production is driven by the lexicon
The researchers have explored a series of questions in this field, for example: (1) What is caused to prime? The abstract syntactic structure or the construction? (2) What is to represent the syntax? The hierarchical syntactic structure or the linear one? (3) What can cause the syntactic priming? The thematic role, event structure (Bunger, Papafragou, & Trueswell, 2013) or the word repetition? (4) What is the mechanism behind the syntactic priming? (5) What is the function of the syntactic frame and the words during the speech production? Most studies above are based on the native speakers
Summary
The syntactic priming exists in the processes of both speech production and comprehension (Bock, Dell, Chang, & Onishi, 2007), and this paper will mainly study the syntactic priming’s experimental paradigms related to speech production. The syntactic priming is a phenomenon, and a very effective experimental method for investigating the syntactic representation (Bock, 1986; Pickering & Ferreira, 2008). Some questions it studied are listed below. We will comprehensively study the syntactic priming of the speech production in terms of the related syntactic structures, the experimental paradigms, the main questions, and the mechanisms
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