Priming Boundaries in Production: Data from French
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Perception studies have shown priming effects of intonational boundaries in disambiguating sentences. Recently, we found evidence for boundary priming in the production of relative clause attachment constructions in English. This study investigates the generalizability of priming effects of boundary location in production in another language, French, characterized by a different way of organizing phrasing from English. We measured word-and-pause durations at critical locations in relative clause constructions, when participants repeated prime sentences and when they produced new ambiguous target sentences. Primes were manipulated to either include a boundary (half early, half late) or not. Our results showed that in French, as in English, boundary location in primes affected both the repetition of prime sentences and the production of new ambiguous targets. When repeating primes, participants produced the longest word-and-pause duration at the primed critical location. When producing targets, the default late boundary preference at the relative clause boundary was smoothed if the prime presented an early boundary. Our results replicate priming effects of boundary location in production previously observed in English. Taken together, these findings support the robustness of the claim that boundaries can be primed and affect sentence processing, suggesting a somewhat abstract representation of prosodic structure computed in early stages of production planning.
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