Speaker: Zhenguang G. CaiTitle: Structural priming as a tool Time: 15:00 – 16:30, 20 April 2022 (Beijing, Hong Kong time)Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638 https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638Structural priming as a toolThe Chinese University of Hong KongStructural priming refers to the phenomenon that speakers tend torepeat syntactic structures across utterances. Since its discovery, structuralpriming has been observed in many constructions, languages, populations, andcontexts. More importantly, it has been utilised as a tool to reveal lexical/syntacticrepresentations and processes underlying language comprehension, languageproduction and language learning. In this talk, I will demonstrate howstructural priming can be creatively used as a tool to address interestingtheoretical questions in psycholinguistics, with a particular focus on Chineselanguage processing. In particular, I will show how structural priming can beused to tap into syntactic processes in language comprehension, to map outrepresentations of syntactic constructions, to examine semantic and lexicalinfluences on syntactic processing, and look into bilingual languageprocessing.Branigan, H. P., &Pickering, M. J. (2017). An experimental approach to linguistic representation.Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40.Cai, Z.G., Zhao, N.,& Pickering, M.J. (in press). How do people interpret implausiblesentences? Cognition.Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M.J., Wang, R., & Branigan, H. P. (2015). It is there whether you hear it ornot: Syntactic representations of missing arguments. Cognition, 136, 255-267.Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M.J., Yan, H., & Branigan, H. P. (2011). Lexical and syntacticrepresentations in closely related languages: Evidence from Mandarin andCantonese. Journal of Memory andLanguage, 65, 431-445.Rafray, C. N., Pickering,M. J., Cai, Z. G., & Branigan, H. P. (2014). The production of coercedexpressions: Evidence from priming. Journalof Memory and Language, 74, 91-106.Zhenguang Cai is an associate professor at TheChinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in psychology fromUniversity of Edinburgh. He was a lecturer at University of East Anglia and anESRC Future Research Leader fellow at University College London. He usesstructural priming to reveal representations and processes underlying languagecomprehension, language production, and language learning. More recently, heinvestigates how people adjust language comprehension and production in lightof their interlocutor. He is also interested in Chinese character handwriting.For more info, please visit: www.cuhklpl.github.io. Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum:https://cuhklpl.github.io/forum.html清华大学人文学院成立十周年院庆:汉藏佛教语文学系列讲座
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