Replication Data for: Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other (doi:10.18710/2YJITD)

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Replication Data for: Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other

doi:10.18710/2YJITD

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2020-12-01

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Ungerer, Tobias, 2020, "Replication Data for: Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other", https://doi.org/10.18710/2YJITD, DataverseNO, V2, UNF:6:VRkaznhc766IUlRW5QA2yQ== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other

doi:10.18710/2YJITD

Ungerer, Tobias (University of Edinburgh)

Trousdale, Graeme

Gisborne, Nikolas

Cummins, Chris

University of Edinburgh

2019

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The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics

Ungerer, Tobias

Ungerer, Tobias

2020-11-30

https://doi.org/10.18710/2YJITD

Arts and Humanities, structural priming, network relations, English, caused-motion, resultative, inhibition

<p>This dataset contains response time data and participant data (nativeness, age, gender, handedness) from a structural priming experiment (N = 160) testing the link between the English caused-motion and resultative construction. The study used the "maze" variant of self-paced reading, in which participants read sentences word by word and choose between a sensible sentence continuation and a distractor word at every step. The study examines the (interacting) effects of the prime construction, target construction and verb overlap (whether prime and target contained the same or different verbs) on participants' response times.</p> <p>Abstract: Cognitive-linguistic theories commonly model speakers’ grammatical knowledge as a network of constructions related by a variety of associative links. The present study proposes that structural priming can provide psycholinguistic evidence of such links, and crucially, that the method can be extended to non-alternating constructions (i.e. constructions that differ in both form and meaning). In a comprehension priming experiment using the “maze” variant of self-paced reading, English caused-motion sentences were found to have an inhibitory effect by slowing down participants’ subsequent processing of resultatives, and vice versa, providing evidence that speakers store distinct but related representations for the constructions. Priming effects of a similar magnitude emerged in both directions, suggesting that the constructions are bidirectionally related, while not supporting previous claims about a metaphorical asymmetry between the patterns. Moreover, priming was only marginally affected when prime and target contained the same rather than different verbs, demonstrating that cross-constructional priming in comprehension can be observed in the absence of a “lexical boost”. The results raise questions for follow-up research on the role of inhibition in the grammatical network and the extension of structural priming to other types of constructional links.</p>

2019-07-24-2019-07-28

2019-07-24-2019-07-28

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10.1515/cog-2020-0016

Tobias Ungerer. 2021. Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other. Cognitive Linguistics 32(3). 389-420.

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• age - age
• gender - gender
• handedness - handedness
• participant_ID - participant_ID
• trial_number - trial_number
• target_cxn - target_cxn
• prime_cxn - prime_cxn
• verb_overlap - verb_overlap
• word_position - word_position
• word_correct - word_correct
• word_incorrect - word_incorrect
• screen_position - screen_position
• correctness - correctness
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