Constrained sentence-production tasks with limited color vocabulary (syntactic-priming and sentence-completion tasks)¶
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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 associational),q3· 1 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study
Description¶
Two novel controlled production instruments for eliciting Korean passive sentences. The syntactic-priming task presents a two-part picture; the examiner describes the prime and the participant produces a target sentence after hearing a primed passive. The sentence-completion task provides the nouns and verb on the picture, with the examiner initiating the first noun phrase. Both use humanized color symbols ("the Red," "the Blue," and "the Yellow") as arguments to control lexical-semantic influence, with 40 stimuli total (20 per task, 10 per canonicity condition).
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- Responses are coded correct only when participants construct a passive with correct grammatical markers and verb inflection; using an active voice counts as an error
Constraints¶
- Designed to focus only on syntactic features by minimizing semantic-lexical top-down processing, so they do not sample spontaneous or semantically rich production
Target Learners¶
- adult Korean speakers, including elderly adults
Learning Goals¶
- measuring passive-sentence production accuracy
- isolating syntactic planning from lexical-semantic processing
Claims¶
- Age is significantly and negatively correlated with passive-sentence production accuracy across all four task conditions in Korean adults [+W]
- After controlling for age, WM correlates significantly only with the most demanding condition (priming task, noncanonical word order) [+W]
- The syntactic-priming task with noncanonical word order is the best single predictor of age among the four sentence-production conditions [+W]
- Working-memory capacity correlates positively with accuracy on all four sentence-production conditions [+W]
Related Designs¶
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Key Sources¶
- Sung JE (2015) Age-Related Changes in Sentence Production Abilities and Their Relation to Working-Memory Capacity: Evidence from a Verb-Final Language. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119424. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119424
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Constrained sentence-production tasks with limited color vocabulary (syntactic-priming and sentence-completion tasks) |
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Two novel controlled production instruments for eliciting Korean passive sentences. |
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by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-17 |
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1 — sung-je-2015 |
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