%0 Journal Article
%T Attention and syntax in sentence production: A critical review
%A Simon Garrod
%A Andriy Myachykov
%A Christoph Scheepers
%J Discours : Revue de Linguistique, Psycholinguistique et Informatique
%D 2009
%I Universit¨¦ Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV
%R 10.4000/discours.7594
%X People often speak about visually perceived events that unfold in real time. In doing so speakers regularly translate the details of the visual world they describe onto the grammatical properties of the sentences about it. For example, the speaker needs to map her constantly changing attentional state onto the syntactic plan of the produced sentences. The present paper briefly discusses what attention is, explores methods for the co-activation of attentional and syntactic operations during the production of visually-mediated sentences in languages with different syntactic properties, and reviews the evidence for a regular link between the speaker¡¯s choice of sentential structure and the distribution of the speaker¡¯s attention to the event¡¯s referents. Also, it discusses evidence for interactive properties of attentional and other types of priming on the speaker¡¯s syntactic choice. Based on reviewed literature, we conclude that attention plays a crucial role in directing lexical and grammatical choices in human discourse. At the same time, the organization of the language¡¯s grammar reciprocates this influence by constraining the extent to which the distribution of attention can affect the real-time syntactic choices. Finally, we discuss how attentional priming engages in complex interactions with other priming effects: it interacts with lexical priming but not with syntactic priming, supporting an encapsulated view of sentence formulation. On parle souvent des ¨¦v¨¦nements alors qu¡¯on est en train de les percevoir visuellement. Les locuteurs doivent alors projeter les d¨¦tails du monde visuel qu'ils sont en train de d¨¦crire sur les propri¨¦t¨¦s grammaticales des phrases qui le d¨¦crivent. . Ainsi, le locuteur doit r¨¦percuter les changements constants de son ¨¦tat attentionnel sur la structure syntaxique des phrases qu¡¯il produit. Le pr¨¦sent article discute bri¨¨vement de ce qu¡¯est l'attention, puis pr¨¦sente les m¨¦thodes pour observer la co-activation des op¨¦rations attentionnelles et syntaxiques lors de la production de phrases r¨¦sultant d¡¯explorations visuelles, dans des langues ayant des propri¨¦t¨¦s syntaxiques diff¨¦rentes. Nous passons ensuite en revue les arguments en faveur d¡¯un lien entre le choix du locuteur quant ¨¤ la structure de la phrase et le partage de son attention sur les r¨¦f¨¦rents de l'¨¦v¨¦nement. Nous discutons ¨¦galement des donn¨¦es mettant en ¨¦vidence les propri¨¦t¨¦s interactives de l¡¯amor age attentionnel et d¡¯autres types d¡¯amor age sur les choix syntaxiques du locuteur. Sur la base de la litt¨¦rature, nous concluons que l¡¯attention joue un r le
%K word order
%K syntax
%K attention
%K sentence production
%K ordre des mots
%K syntaxe
%K attention
%K production de phrases
%U http://discours.revues.org/7594