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Syntactic Priming of Nouns and Verbs in Chinese

Ching-Ching Lu

National Hsinchu Teachers College, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Elizabeth Bates

University of California, San Diego, bates{at}crl.ucsd.edu

Daisy Hung

National Yang Ming University, Taipei

Ovid Tzeng

National Yang Ming University, Taipei

Jean Hsu

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chih-Hao Tsai

National Yang Ming University, Taipei

Katherine Roe

University of California, San Diego

Syntactic priming of Chinese nouns and verbs was in vestigated in word recognition (cued shadowing of auditory targets) and production(picture naming). Disyllabic compoun words were presented after syntactically congruent, incongruent,or neutral auditory contexts, with azero delay between offset of the context and onset of the target. Significant priming was observed inboth tasks, including facilitation as well as inhibition. Post hoc analyses showed that reaction times were also affected by sublexical variables that are especially relevant for Chinese, including syllable density (number of word types and tokens in the language with the same first or second syllable) and semantic transparency (whether the meaning of the whole word is predictable from the separate meanings of the the two syllables within the compound). These patterns suggest competitive effects at the sublexical level. Implications for interactive models of lexical access are discussed.

Key Words: Chinese • cued shadowing • nouns • picture naming • syntactic priming • verbs

Language and Speech, Vol. 44, No. 4, 437-471 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/00238309010440040201
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