{"pk":27632,"title":"The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Structural priming occurs when interlocutors copy the syntactic structure of their partners’ utterances, and is di-agnostic of their underlying representations. We trained adult participants on an artificial ‘alien’ language in which nounsappeared with adjectives or numerals in two-word phrases; participants then used that language to communicate with an alieninterlocutor. Input languages had variable word-order with the two modifier types tending to appear on the same side of thenoun (harmonic) or on different sides of the noun (non-harmonic). Participants in all conditions acquired the dominant or-der of their input; however, structural priming only occurred within modifier types (e.g. encountering Numeral-Noun primedNumeral-Noun order only, not Adjective-Noun), even for participants exposed to harmonic input where both modifier typespatterned the same way. This suggests that the abstract representations tapped by structural priming in rapidly-learnt artificiallanguages encode distinctions that are not based purely on distributional properties of the input.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pc8w15q","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kenny","middle_name":"","last_name":"Smith","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Olga","middle_name":"","last_name":"Feher","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Culbertson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27632/galley/17268/download/"}]}