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Subject(s)

• Cognitive grammar [Browse]
• Priming (Psychology) [Browse]
• English language—Psychological aspects [Browse]

Series

• Constructional approaches to language ; v. 35. [More in this series]
• Constructional approaches to language ; volume 35 [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers' processing of a grammatical construction is affected by prior exposure to a similar construction. Previous experimental findings are innovatively reinterpreted to shed light on various aspects of the grammatical network, including the strength of the similarities between constructions, the level of abstraction at which they are represented and the ways in which similar constructions can either boost or inhibit each other. Moreover, new experiments are reported that extend structural priming to understudied phenomena like the resultative, the depictive and the caused-motion construction. The book is directed at theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive psychologists alike, showcasing how recent work in these areas can be integrated and extended"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2022.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indices.

Rights and reproductions note

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Contents

• Similarity relations in the grammatical network
• Structural priming: background, methods and applications
• Priming evidence of similarity relations among alternating constructions: a reinterpretation
• Extending the scope of structural priming: comprehension experiments with non-alternating constructions
• Conclusion and further implications.

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ISBN

• 9789027214041
• 9027214042 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2023026236

OCLC

1381441210

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