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Structural priming is a form of positive priming, in that it induces a tendency to repeat or more easily process a current sentence that is similar in structure to a previously presented prime. It is a phenomenon studied in the field of psycholinguistics. J. Kathryn Bock introduced it in 1986,.〔Bock, J.K. (1986). Syntactic persistence in language production. ''Cognitive Psychology'', 18, 355-387.〕 Several paradigms exist to elicit structural priming.〔〔Potter, M & Lombardi, L. 1990. Regeneration in short-term recall of sentences. ''Journal of Memory and Language'', 29, 633-654.〕 Structural priming persists cross-linguistically.〔Loebell, H. & Bock, K. (2003). Structural priming across languages. ''Linguistics'', 41(5), 791-824.〕 One specific form of structural priming is syntactic priming. ==Eliciting structural priming== ;Picture description Bock introduced a picture description task〔 to investigate this phenomenon. In the study phase, at their own pace, participants read a list of sentences and observe a set of pictures. All these pictures describe events including an agent, patient, and theme. Half of the agents pictured are humans and the other half inanimate objects. This phase of the experiment was performed in an attempt to establish a "recognition memory" cover story. In the test phase, participants are asked to read a sentence expressing one of four conditions: *Transitive active: ''George kicked the ball'' *Transitive passive: ''The ball was kicked by George'' *Dative double-object: ''George gave the boy the ball'' *Dative prepositional phrase: ''George gave the ball to the boy'' After reading a sentence, the participant repeats it. Following this repetition, the participant describes the picture. ;Results of picture description Consider a trial wherein the participant is reading a dative double-object construction, ''George gave the boy the ball''. The subject is then significantly more likely to describe the a picture as ''X gave Y the Z'' instead of ''X gave the Z to Y''. This persistence in sentential form is structural priming.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Structural priming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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