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Structural priming supports grammatical networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson*
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Linguistic Department, University College London, London WC1E 6BT. r.hudson@ucl.ac.uk www.dickhudson.com
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Abstract

As Branigan & Pickering (B&P) argue, structural priming has important implications for the theory of language structure, but these implications go beyond those suggested. Priming implies a network structure, so the grammar must be a network and so must sentence structure. Instead of phrase structure, the most promising model for syntactic structure is enriched dependency structure, as in Word Grammar.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e295
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