This priming study investigates the role of conceptual structure during language production, probing whether English speakers are sensitive to the structure of the event encoded by a prime sentence. In two experiments, participants read prime sentences aloud before describing motion events. Primes differed in 1) syntactic frame, 2) degree of lexical and conceptual overlap with target events, and 3) distribution of event components within frames. Results demonstrate that conceptual overlap between primes and targets led to priming of (a) the information that speakers chose to include in their descriptions of target events, (b) the way that information was mapped to linguistic elements, and (c) the syntactic structures that were built to communicate that information. When there was no conceptual overlap between primes and targets, priming was not successful. We conclude that conceptual structure is a level of representation activated during priming, and that it has implications for both Message Planning and Linguistic Formulation.

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事件结构影响语言产生：来自运动事件描述中结构启动的证据

这项启动研究调查了概念结构在语言产生过程中的作用，探讨说英语的人是否对由启动语句编码的事件结构敏感。在两个实验中，参与者在描述运动事件之前大声朗读主要句子。素数的不同之处在于 1) 句法框架，2) 与目标事件的词汇和概念重叠程度，以及 3) 框架内事件组件的分布。结果表明，质数和目标之间的概念重叠导致了 (a) 说话者选择包含在他们对目标事件的描述中的信息，(b) 信息映射到语言元素的方式，以及 (c) 句法结构旨在传达该信息。当素数和目标之间没有概念重叠时，启动不成功。我们得出的结论是，概念结构是在启动过程中激活的表征水平，它对信息规划和语言表达都有影响。