SPAWNing Structural Priming Predictions from a Cognitively Motivated Parser

G Prasad, T Linzen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07202, 2024 - arxiv.org
Structural priming is a widely used psycholinguistic paradigm to study human sentence
representations. In this work we propose a framework for using empirical priming patterns to …

[PDF][PDF] Theories all the way down: remarks on “theoretical” and “experimental” linguistics

C Phillips, P Gaston, N Huang… - … Cambridge handbook of …, 2021 - phoebegaston.com
We expect both too much and too little from experiments in linguistics, including the recent
wave of interest in 'experimental syntax'. We often encounter the hope that experiments will …

[PDF][PDF] Syntax and speaking

S Momma - The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax, 2021 - shotam.github.io
Our syntactic knowledge guides what we say and how we speak. In turn, what we say and
how we speak reflect the structure of our syntactic knowledge. Thus, studies of syntax and …

Syntactic Overshadowing and Blocking in Learning Chinese as a Second Language: A Case of Learning the Ba-Construction

X Hou - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Overshadowing and blocking are two closely related phenomena, which have been well
established in classical conditioning research. Overshadowing refers to the reduced …

[PDF][PDF] Theories All The Way Down

C Phillips, P Gaston, N Huang… - Retrieved online (February …, 2019 - colinphillips.net
It is common in linguistics to draw a contrast between “theoretical” and “experimental”
research, following terminology used in other fields of science. Researchers who pursue …

[PDF][PDF] Remarks on “Theoretical” and “Experimental” Linguistics

C Phillips, P Gaston, N Huang, H Muller - zn-huang.github.io
We expect both too much and too little from experiments in linguistics, including the recent
wave of interest in “experimental syntax.” We often encounter the hope that experiments will …