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Frontiers in psychology, 2017
Syntactic satiation is the phenomenon where some sentences that initially seem ungrammatical appe... more Syntactic satiation is the phenomenon where some sentences that initially seem ungrammatical appear more acceptable after repeated exposures (Snyder, 2000). We investigated satiation by manipulating two factors known to affect syntactic priming, a phenomenon where recent exposure to a grammatical structure facilitates subsequent processing of that structure (Bock, 1986). Specifically, we manipulated (i)(number of sentences between primes and targets) and (ii)(type of phrase repeated across primes and targets). Experiment 1 investigated whether acceptability ratings of Complex-NP Constraint (CNPC) and Subject islands improve as consequence of these variables. If so, priming and satiation may be linked. When primes were separated from targets by one sentence, CNPC islands' acceptability was improved by a preceding island of the same type, but Subject islands' acceptability was not. When prime-target pairs were separated by five sentences, we found no improvement for either isl...
Frontiers in psychology, 2017
Syntactic satiation is the phenomenon where some sentences that initially seem ungrammatical appe... more Syntactic satiation is the phenomenon where some sentences that initially seem ungrammatical appear more acceptable after repeated exposures (Snyder, 2000). We investigated satiation by manipulating two factors known to affect syntactic priming, a phenomenon where recent exposure to a grammatical structure facilitates subsequent processing of that structure (Bock, 1986). Specifically, we manipulated (i)(number of sentences between primes and targets) and (ii)(type of phrase repeated across primes and targets). Experiment 1 investigated whether acceptability ratings of Complex-NP Constraint (CNPC) and Subject islands improve as consequence of these variables. If so, priming and satiation may be linked. When primes were separated from targets by one sentence, CNPC islands' acceptability was improved by a preceding island of the same type, but Subject islands' acceptability was not. When prime-target pairs were separated by five sentences, we found no improvement for either isl...