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. 2017 Jan:40:e300.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17000486.

Considering experimental and observational evidence of priming together, syntax doesn't look so autonomous

Nicholas A Lester  1 , John W Du Bois  1 , Stefan Th Gries  1 , Fermín Moscoso Del Prado Martín  1
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Considering experimental and observational evidence of priming together, syntax doesn't look so autonomous

Nicholas A Lester et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

We agree with Branigan & Pickering (B&P) that structural priming experiments should supplant grammaticality judgments for testing linguistic representation. However, B&P overlook a vast (corpus-)linguistic literature that converges with - but extends - the experimental findings. B&P conclude that syntax is functionally independent of the lexicon. We argue that a broader approach to priming reveals cracks in the façade of syntactic autonomy.

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