The persistence of optional complementizer production: Why saying ‘‘that’’ is not saying ‘‘that’’ at all
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What kinds of processing mechanisms determine the forms of spoken sentences? Three experiments (N 1⁄4 176) measured whether the mention of an optional that in a sentence-complement structure (‘‘The mechanic mentioned (that) the car could use a tune-up’’) can be primed by the prior production of a sentence that included a lexically or a lexically and syntactically similar that, using a recall-based sentence-production task. Results showed that target thatmention was influenced by primes with lexically and syntactically similar thats (sentence-complement primes with versus without thats), but not by primes with only lexically similar thats (transitive primes with determiner thats, ‘‘The company insured that farm for. . .,’’ or noun-complement primes with complementizer thats, ‘‘The theory that. . .’’). Also, compared to neutral primes, sentence-complement primes without thats decreased target that-mention more than sentence-complement primes with thats increased it. This suggests that complementizer-persistence specifically and sentence-production generally includes an autonomous, lexically independent syntactic processing component. 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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