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. 2017 Jan:40:e304.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17000528.

Can structural priming answer the important questions about language?

Andrea E Martin  1 , Falk Huettig  1 , Mante S Nieuwland  1
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Can structural priming answer the important questions about language?

Andrea E Martin et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Structural priming makes a valuable contribution to psycholinguistics, but it taps into implicit memory representations and processes that may differ from what is deployed during online language processing. As a result, the strength of inductive inference regarding linguistic representation is rather limited. We question whether implicit memory for language can and should be equated with linguistic representation or with language processing.

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