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Structural priming is not a Royal Road to representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Antje S. Meyer
Antje S. Meyer*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, 6500AH Nijmegen, Netherlands. antje.meyer@mpi.nl www.mpi.nl
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Abstract

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) propose that the structural priming paradigm is a Royal Road to linguistic representations of any kind, unobstructed by influences of psychological processes. In my view, however, they are too optimistic about the versatility of the paradigm and, more importantly, its ability to provide direct evidence about the nature of stored linguistic representations.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e305
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