Fig 1.
Examples of Sentence-Picture pairs for four sentences with the same words.
Table 1.
List of the materials used in the study.
Fig 2.
Structure of the homogenous and heterogeneous blocks used in the experiment.
The top panel illustrates the structure of a homogeneous block, using the example of a passive block. The bottom panel illustrates the structure of a heterogeneous block, in which both active and passive sentences are presented. Thick arrows indicate whether or not priming is expected between two consecutive sentences. Expected responses on the sentence-picture pairs are also indicated.
Fig 3.
Homogeneous vs. heterogeneous condition.
Reaction times (ms) for active and passive sentences in the homogeneous block (in white) and in the heterogeneous block (in grey).
Fig 4.
Linear plot of participants’ reaction times (ms) as a function of trial number, by block type (heterogeneous and homogeneous).
Fig 5.
Effect of syntactic repetition within the heterogeneous condition.
Reaction times (ms) for active and passive sentences preceded by one sentence sharing the same syntactic structure (in white) and by no sentence sharing the same syntactic structure (in grey).