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Can structural priming answer the important questions about language?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Andrea E. Martin ,
Falk Huettig  and
Mante S. Nieuwland
Andrea E. Martin
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6525 XD Nijmegen, Netherlands. andrea.martin@mpi.nl falk.huettig@mpi.nl mante.nieuwland@mpi.nl https://sites.google.com/site/aemn1011/ http://www.mpi.nl/people/huettig-falk http://www.mpi.nl/people/nieuwland-mante School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom.
Falk Huettig
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6525 XD Nijmegen, Netherlands. andrea.martin@mpi.nl falk.huettig@mpi.nl mante.nieuwland@mpi.nl https://sites.google.com/site/aemn1011/ http://www.mpi.nl/people/huettig-falk http://www.mpi.nl/people/nieuwland-mante
Mante S. Nieuwland
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6525 XD Nijmegen, Netherlands. andrea.martin@mpi.nl falk.huettig@mpi.nl mante.nieuwland@mpi.nl https://sites.google.com/site/aemn1011/ http://www.mpi.nl/people/huettig-falk http://www.mpi.nl/people/nieuwland-mante
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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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e304
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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