Syntactic Priming During Sentence Comprehension Of English

Previous studies showed that there is a dispute if syntactic priming caused by lexical repetition, especi ally it is unclear that whether or not by repeated English vocabulary. To solve this problem, an English sent ence in English relative clauses and parallel structures as experimental material, the use of eye tracking tec hnology, The study designed two experiments to explore Syntactic priming Eye Movements under the voca bulary of different conditions,and the internal mechanism of the language started.Although previous research has shown a processing facilitation for conjoined phrases that share the same structure, it is currently not clear whether this parallelism advantage is specific to particular syntactic environments such as coordination, or whether it is an example of more general effect in sentence comprehension. In Experiment I,two sentence have the different verb and have same grammatical structure. In Experiment 2,The second experiment replicated previous findings, showing that the second conjunct of a coordinated noun phrase was read more quickly when it had the same structure as the first conjunct, compared with when it did not. There are 41 students participated the experiment They are from an University in Henan。First, In Experiment 1, the main effect of sentence structual was significant in first time, total time and number of fixations in verb region,disambiguous region and post-disambiguating region.Second,In Experiment 2, the main effect of condition was significant in first time, total time and number of fixations in critical region and final region.Third, Experiment 1 demonstrated that participents found a tamporaily priming effect during sentence that have same structrual,reptition of grammatical form can eapidly facilitate target sentence processing.Forth,Experiment 2 demonstrated that participents found a tamporaily priming effect during noun phrases that have same structrual in one sentence,reptition of grammatical form can eapidly facilitate target noun phrase processing.Fifth, These results demonstrated that grammatical priming effect was not depenfent on lexically information,it is not associated with initial verb.Sixth, the cognitive fatigue of participants in different of syntactic structure is higher than that in same of syntactic structure.Seventh, in the total time,high levels of cognitive fatigue was significantly higher than the low cognitive fatigue group; in the first fixation duration,there was no different of high and low cognitive fatigue groups.