@InCollection{pietsch_buch_2011,
  author =	 {Christian Pietsch and Armin Buch and Stefan Kopp and
                  Jan de Ruiter},
  title =	 {Measuring syntactic priming in dialogue corpora},
  booktitle =	 {Empirical approaches to linguistic theory: Studies
                  of meaning and structure},
  publisher =	 {Mouton de Gruyter},
  year =	 2011,
  editor =	 {Britta Stolterfoht and Sam Featherston},
  series =	 {Studies in Generative Grammar},
  annote =	 {syntactic priming; corpus; syntactic persistence;
                  structural priming; syntactic alignment; dialog;
                  co-ordination},
  abstract =	 {The tendency to reuse syntactic constructions is
                  often attributed to syntactic priming. We devise a
                  simple, distribution-based measure of priming
                  between linguistic constructions (or syntactic
                  rules/categories), and find priming in treebanks of
                  dialogue corpora, both for context-free production
                  rules and for Combinatory Categorial Grammar
                  categories. It is stronger for task-oriented
                  dialogues, and stronger in lexical categories than
                  in syntactic categories.  As priming cannot be
                  measured directly in language corpora, we use the
                  decay of rule repetition probability as a proxy. A
                  limitation of the method presented here is that it
                  conflates self-priming and other-priming. However,
                  we consider it a great advantage that our method
                  takes into account all rules or categories occurring
                  in a given corpus, not just a few carefully selected
                  constructions.}
}