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Comment
. 2017 Jan:40:e302.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17000504.

Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust

Kyle Mahowald  1 , Ariel James  2 , Richard Futrell  1 , Edward Gibson  1
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Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust

Kyle Mahowald et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) claim that the success of structural priming as a method should "end the current reliance on acceptability judgments." Structural priming is an interesting and useful phenomenon, but we are dubious that the effect is powerful enough to test many detailed claims about specific points of syntactic theory.

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