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    "title": "Priming Abstract Modal Representations in Modals with Causatives",
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    "abstract": "Semanticists have debated the extent to which modality and causation are related in natural language. This paper aims to promote a theory in which overt causatives share core components of meaning with deontic modals. We report a sentence recall experiment that suggests that priming can be used to target the high-level semantic representations shared between two syntactically distinct linguistic expressions. Our results show that it's possible to prime the production of the deontic modal 'had to' (e.g., ``George 'had to' go to the store\"), with causative 'made' (e.g., ``Jane 'made' George go to the store''), suggesting that the two expressions share a component of their meaning. Our results contribute to the methodological development in experimental semantics by establishing the utility of the priming effect to target meaning.",
    "language": "eng",
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            "word": "Linguistics; Language Production; Memory; Representation; Semantics"
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            "first_name": "Angelica",
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            "last_name": "Hill",
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            "institution": "University of Massachusetts Amherst",
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            "first_name": "Shota",
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            "last_name": "Momma",
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            "institution": "University of Massachusetts Amherst",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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