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Syntactic priming in Czech language production: examining morphological boost

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021

Abstract

There are only a few reports on syntactic priming from highly inflected languages such as Czech. Consequently, little is known about how the variability of grammatical morphemes marking syntactic roles, such as case, interacts with syntactic priming.

It is possible that the repetition of grammatical morphemes between sentences will enhanced the priming effect (morphological boost) similarly to the lexical boost. We conducted two experiments that investigated syntactic priming in Czech, focusing on dative-accusative structures in which priming was previously found in Czech.