Aspectual verbs (e.g. begin) and intensional want) can both take entity-denoting NPs as a complement (begin/want the book) acquire an implicit meaning reading). Linguistic theory posits that such enriched meanings be acquired either by semantic enrichment with aspectual or syntactic verbs. To investigate whether share operations, we conducted structural priming study. Experiment 1 repeated verb...

This study examined structural priming during online second language (L2) comprehension. In two self-paced reading experiments, 64 intermediate to advanced Chinese learners of English as a foreign read coordinated noun phrases where the conjuncts had either same structure or different structures. Experiment 1 showed that conjunct was faster when it first. effect occurred for structurally marked...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To determine if structural priming can be demonstrated in young children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). RESEARCH DESIGN A mixed-model design was used to compare children with SLI to two groups of typically developing (TD) children, and to compare priming conditions. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Eighteen children with SLI and 36 TD children (18 matched on ag...

We investigated the effects of object relative size on priming and explicit memory for color photos of common objects. Participants were presented with color photos of pairs of objects displayed in either appropriate or inappropriate relative sizes. Implicit memory was assessed by speed of object size ratings whereas explicit memory was assessed by an old/new recognition test. Study-to-test cha...

Amnesic patients perform poorly on explicit memory tests that require conscious recollection of recent experiences, but frequently show preserved facilitations of performance or priming effects on implicit memory tasks that do not require conscious recollection. We examined implicit memory for novel visual objects on an object decision test in which subjects decide whether structurally possible...

Abstract Code-switching is generally dispreferred at points of non-shared word order across a bilingual's two languages. In priming studies, this dispreference persists even following exposure to code-switched non-shared-word-order utterance. The present study delves deeper into the scope code-switching by investigating whether lexical repetition target and prime, factor known boost structural ...

Abstract The shared-syntax account of bilingual syntactic representations suggests that similar structures from different languages are represented as one in the mind. In this study, we examined degree morpho-syntactic similarity needed for to be shared mind by comparing passive Greek and English. Contrary English, non-active morphology is not restricted passives “by phrase” considered marked. ...

to evaluate the effects of on-farm seed priming treatments and sowing dates on rate and percentage of seedling emergence, biological yield and some physiological indices of corn hybrid (sc. 260) an experiment was conducted in hamedan, iran in 2010. a split plot in a randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted. main plots include three sowing dates (early, on-time and ...

Hepatitis B viruses, or hepadnaviruses, are small DNA-containing viruses that replicate through reverse transcription. Their prototype, HBV, causes severe liver disease in humans. The hepadnaviral P protein is an unusual reverse transcriptase (RT) that initiates DNA synthesis by host-factor-dependent protein priming on a specific RNA stem-loop template, epsilon, yielding a short DNA oligonucleo...

Numerous studies have established that speakers tend to form utterances by reusing previously experienced sentence structures (i.e., structural priming). It was also frequently found the repetition of lexical items enhances priming boost). This facilitation effect occurs not only when there is a full overlap verbs, but one level representation (semantic or phonological representation) overlaps ...