Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:45:39 BST CiteULike: briordan Scheepers http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/author/Scheepers CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2242306 <i>Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 54, No. 3. (May 2007), pp. 218-250.</i><br /><br />Many studies have shown evidence for syntactic priming during language production (e.g., Bock, 1986). It is often assumed that comprehension and production share similar mechanisms and that priming also occurs during comprehension (e.g., Pickering & Garrod, 2004). Research investigating priming during comprehension (e.g., Branigan et al., 2005 and Scheepers and Crocker, 2004) has mainly focused on syntactic ambiguities that are very different from the meaning-equivalent structures used in production research. In two experiments, we investigated whether priming during comprehension occurs in ditransitive sentences similar to those used in production research. When the verb was repeated between prime and target, we observed a priming effect similar to that in production. However, we observed no evidence for priming when the verbs were different. Thus, priming during comprehension occurs for very similar structures as priming during production, but in contrast to production, the priming effect is completely lexically dependent. Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension Manabu Arai Roger van Gompel Christoph Scheepers doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.07.001 Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 54, No. 3. (May 2007), pp. 218-250. 2008-01-17T02:01:42-00:00 2007 Cognitive Psychology 54 3 218 250 eye-movements syntactic-priming syntactic-variation visual-world-paradigm http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2235259 <i>Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 56, No. 1. (February 2008), pp. 1-29.</i><br /><br />Metonymic verbs like start or enjoy often occur with artifact-denoting complements (e.g., The artist started the picture) although semantically they require event-denoting complements (e.g., The artist started painting the picture). In case of artifact-denoting objects, the complement is assumed to be type shifted (or coerced) into an event to conform to the verb's semantic restrictions. Psycholinguistic research has provided evidence for this kind of enriched composition: readers experience processing difficulty when faced with metonymic constructions compared to non-metonymic controls. However, slower reading times for metonymic constructions could also be due to competition between multiple interpretations that are being entertained in parallel whenever a metonymic verb is encountered. Using the visual-world paradigm, we devised an experiment which enabled us to determine the time course of metonymic interpretation in relation to non-metonymic controls. The experiment provided evidence in favor of a non-competitive, serial coercion process. Evidence for serial coercion: A time course analysis using the visual-world paradigm Christoph Scheepers Frank Keller Mirella Lapata doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.10.001 Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 56, No. 1. (February 2008), pp. 1-29. 2008-01-15T15:19:12-00:00 2008 Cognitive Psychology 56 1 1 29 eye-movements visual-world-paradigm