TY  - CHAP
AB  - The tendency to reuse syntactic constructions is often attributed to
syntactic priming. We devise a simple, distribution-based measure of
priming between linguistic constructions (or syntactic
rules/categories), and find priming in treebanks of dialogue corpora,
both for context-free production rules and for Combinatory Categorial
Grammar categories. It is stronger for task-oriented dialogues, and
stronger in lexical categories than in syntactic categories.

As priming cannot be measured directly in language corpora, we use the
decay of rule repetition probability as a proxy. A limitation of the
method presented here is that it conflates self-priming and
other-priming. However, we consider it a great advantage that our
method takes into account all rules or categories occurring in a given
corpus, not just a few carefully selected constructions.
DO  - 10.1515/9781614510888.29
KW  - corpus
KW  - syntactic alignment
KW  - syntactic priming
KW  - co-ordination
KW  - structural priming
KW  - dialog
KW  - syntactic persistence
LA  - eng
PY  - 2012
SN  - 978-1-61451-088-8
SP  - 29-42
T3  - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure
TI  - Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-20470860
Y2  - 2024-11-21T21:30:23
ER  -