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{ "pk": 24105, "title": "A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The effect of syntactic priming exhibits three well-documented empirical properties: the lexical boost, the inverse frequency effect, and the asymmetrical decay. We aim to show how these three empirical phenomena can be reconciled in a general learning framework, the hierarchical Bayesian model (HBM). The model represents syntactic knowledge in a hierarchical structure of syntactic statistics, where a lower level represents the verb-specific biases of syntactic decisions, and a higher level represents the abstract bias as an aggregation of verb-specific biases. This knowledge is updated in response to experience by Bayesian inference. In simulations, we show that the HBM captures the above-mentioned properties of syntactic priming. The results indicate that some properties of priming which are usually explained by a residual activation account can also be explained by an implicit learning account. We also discuss the model's implications for the lexical basis of syntactic priming.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Production; Statistical learning; Syntax; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cc8p5fk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Weijie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Richard", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Futrell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Irvine", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T11:00:00-07:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24105/galley/13699/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24105/galley/20877/download/" } ] }