Structural priming in sentence comprehension: A single prime is enough.

ABSTRACT: Experiencing a syntactic structure affects how we process subsequent instances of that structure. This phenomenon, called structural priming, is observed both in language production and in language comprehension. However, while abstract syntactic structures can be primed independent of lexical overlap in sentence production, evidence for structural priming in comprehension is more elusive. In addition, when structural priming in comprehension is found, it can often be accounted for in terms of participants' explicit expectations. Participants may use the structural repetition over several sentences and build expectations, which create a priming effect. Here, we use a new experimental paradigm to investigate structural priming in sentence comprehension independent of lexical overlap and of

SUBMITTER: Giavazzi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5880384 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature