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= Effects of Similarity on Lexical and Syntactic Production =
This is a series of corpus-based studies and production experiments on how similarity at different linguistic levels affects how we produce language and what this tells us about the architecture of the language production system. Please follow the links below for more information -- some may be only accessible to HLP lab members or HLP lab guests.

 * [[ProjectsPhonPriming|Segmental and syllable-based phonological similarity effects on fluency, lexical selection, and syntactic choices]]: A series of production experiments (video description, semi-scripted sentence formation, and recall to investigate how similar or identical syllables onsets between adjacent or close subject-verb or verb-object pairs affect their production (Katrina Furth, Caitlin Hilliard, Florian Jaeger).
 * [[ProjectsOCPSegmentalMetricalLexicalSimilarity|Segmental, metrical and lexical form similarity effects on morphosyntactic alternation]]: A series of corpus-based studies, using the Google ngram and the Fisher corpus to investigate whether ''that''-mentioning (which is generally considered a syntactic choice) is affected by a pressure to avoid segmental or metrical OCP violations. We're also testing whether speakers avoid double ''that''-sequences. (Maureen Gillespie, Florian Jaeger). For some previous references, see
  * [[http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/papers/E_WalterJaeger05_CLS.pdf|Walter and Jaeger (2008)]]. ''Constraints on Optional that: A Strong Word Form OCP Effect''. Proceedings of the Main Session of the 41st Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 505-519.
  * [[http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/papers/E_Jaeger_2006_bls.pdf|Jaeger (in press)]] ''Phonological Optimization and Syntactic Variation: The Case of Optional that''. Proceedings of 32nd BLS.

  
 * See also work we did on similarity avoidance in the phonological lexicon across languages of the world:
  * [[http://web.mit.edu/graff/www/GraffJaeger-LocalityAndFeatureSpecificityInOCPEffects.pdf|Graff and Jaeger (2009)]]: ''Locality and Feature Specificity in OCP Effects: Evidence from Aymara, Dutch, and Javanese.'' Proceedings of the CLS 45.