Extending structural priming to test constructional relations: Some comments and suggestions

Structural priming is a promising tool for testing similarity relations between constructions, but its applicability to larger-scale models of constructional networks is still limited. This article outlines the following two limitations of previous priming studies: first, they largely focus on primi...

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Published in:Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2022-11, Vol.10 (1), p.159-182
Main Author: Ungerer, Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cocaine
Construction Grammar
constructional network
Experimental methods
Linguistics
non-alternating constructions
Priming
Research methodology
Semantics
Structural priming
Syntactic structures
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Summary:Structural priming is a promising tool for testing similarity relations between constructions, but its applicability to larger-scale models of constructional networks is still limited. This article outlines the following two limitations of previous priming studies: first, they largely focus on priming between alternating constructions; and second, they often test the relations between instances of the same construction rather than between instances of different constructions. Three strategies are suggested for how future priming research could overcome these limitations. Concrete ideas for experimental setups are presented, and their benefits and limitations are addressed.
ISSN:2197-2788
2197-2796
DOI:10.1515/gcla-2022-0008