PMID- 30455651
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231104
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 9
DP  - 2018
TI  - Cross-Domain Priming From Mathematics to Relative-Clause Attachment: A 
      Visual-World Study in French.
PG  - 2056
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02056 [doi]
LID - 2056
AB  - Human language processing must rely on a certain degree of abstraction, as we can 
      produce and understand sentences that we have never produced or heard before. One 
      way to establish syntactic abstraction is by investigating structural priming. 
      Structural priming has been shown to be effective within a cognitive domain, in 
      the present case, the linguistic domain. But does priming also work across 
      different domains? In line with previous experiments, we investigated 
      cross-domain structural priming from mathematical expressions to linguistic 
      structures with respect to relative clause attachment in French (e.g., la fille 
      du professeur qui habitait a Paris/the daughter of the teacher who lived in 
      Paris). Testing priming in French is particularly interesting because it will 
      extend earlier results established for English to a language where the baseline 
      for relative clause attachment preferences is different form English: in English, 
      relative clauses (RCs) tend to be attached to the local noun phrase (low 
      attachment) while in French there is a preference for high attachment of relative 
      clauses to the first noun phrase (NP). Moreover, in contrast to earlier studies, 
      we applied an online-technique (visual world eye-tracking). Our results confirm 
      cross-domain priming from mathematics to linguistic structures in French. Most 
      interestingly, different from less mathematically adept participants, we found 
      that in mathematically skilled participants, the effect emerged very early on (at 
      the beginning of the relative clause in the speech stream) and is also present 
      later (at the end of the relative clause). In line with previous findings, our 
      experiment suggests that mathematics and language share aspects of syntactic 
      structure at a very high-level of abstraction.
FAU - Pozniak, Celine
AU  - Pozniak C
AD  - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS, Paris Diderot University, Paris, 
      France.
FAU - Hemforth, Barbara
AU  - Hemforth B
AD  - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS, Paris Diderot University, Paris, 
      France.
FAU - Scheepers, Christoph
AU  - Scheepers C
AD  - Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United 
      Kingdom.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20181105
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
EIN - Front Psychol. 2018 Dec 12;9:2560. PMID: 30588233
PMC - PMC6230585
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - French
OT  - arithmetic
OT  - eyetracking
OT  - language
OT  - priming
OT  - psycholinguistics
OT  - relative clause attachment
OT  - visual world paradigm
EDAT- 2018/11/21 06:00
MHDA- 2018/11/21 06:01
PMCR- 2018/11/05
CRDT- 2018/11/21 06:00
PHST- 2018/01/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/10/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/11/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/11/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/11/21 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/11/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02056 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2018 Nov 5;9:2056. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02056. eCollection 
      2018.