Abstract / Description of output
Syntactic priming effects, modelled as increase in repetition probability shortly after a use of a syntactic rule, have the potential to improve language processing components. We model priming of syntactic rules in annotated corpora of spoken dialogue, extending previous work that was confined to selected constructions. We find that speakers are more receptive to priming from their interlocutor in task-oriented dialogue than in spontaneous conversation. Low-frequency rules are more likely to show priming.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers |
| Place of Publication | New York City, USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Pages | 121-124 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2006 |