{"pk":25816,"title":"Statistical Structures in Artificial languages Prime Relative Clause Attachment\nBiases in English","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of syntactic priming is well studied in the\nliterature, but the mechanisms behind it are still under debate.\nIn this study, we trained English-speaking participants in\nartificial language sequences with dependencies that are either\nadjacent or non-adjacent. The participants then wrote\ncompletions to relative clause (RC) fragments. We found that\nparticipants who learn non-adjacent dependencies in the\nartificial language, exhibit a bias to write high-attachment\n(non-adjacent) continuations for RCs, when compared to\nparticipants in a control condition who exhibit low-attachment\n(adjacent) biases in RCs. The implications for theories of\nsyntactic priming and its relations to implicit learning are\ndiscussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"implicit learning; syntactic priming; relative\nclause attachment bias; non-adjacent dependencies"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f6289dd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Felix","middle_name":"Hao","last_name":"Wang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":""},{"first_name":"Mythili","middle_name":"","last_name":"Menon","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":""},{"first_name":"Elsi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kaiser","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25816/galley/15440/download/"}]}