Semantic Relation Priming Is Not Constituent-Specific—Evidence from Electrophysiology

Constituent Order Priming from Reading to Listening 1 RUNNING HEAD: Constituent Order Priming from Reading to Listening Constituent order priming from reading to listening: A visual-world study

Exploiting Constituent Dependencies for Tree Kernel-Based Semantic Relation Extraction

This paper proposes a new approach to dynamically determine the tree span for tree kernel-based semantic relation extraction. It exploits constituent dependencies to keep the nodes and their head children along the path connecting the two entities, while removing the noisy information from the syntactic parse tree, eventually leading to a dynamic syntactic parse tree. This paper also explores e...

Individual Differences in Semantic Priming Performance: Insights from the Semantic Priming Project

The semantic/associative priming effect refers to the finding of faster recognition times for words preceded by related targets (e.g., cat – DOG), compared to words preceded by unrelated targets (e.g., hat – DOG). Over the past three decades, a voluminous literature has explored the influence of semantic primes on word recognition, and this work has been critical in shaping our understanding of...

Genericity Is Conceptual, Not Semantic

Genericity is not encoded in the syntax semantics interface any more than metaphoricity is, or other forms of sense selection. We observe the overwhelming cross-linguistic lack of encoding of cues which could be understood as a signal of a particular semantic content. We note the ready compatibility of a range of syntactic forms with each of a range of conceptual distinctions one might make abo...

Cross-Modal Semantic Priming

The cross-modal semantic priming paradigm is described, including its underlying rationale and the different tasks with which it is combined. The major characteristics of the paradigm—the type of stimuli used, the dependent and independent variables typically manipulated—are then introduced. Also, its main advantages and drawbacks are discussed. Finally, the most important areas of application ...