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The syntax of priming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

William O'Grady
William O'Grady*
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Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822. ogrady@hawaii.edu http://ling.hawaii.edu/william-ogrady/
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Abstract

Priming reflects the reactivation of processing routines that map strings of words onto semantic representations (and vice versa) without the mediation of syntactic structure, including the “flat structure” that Branigan & Pickering (B&P) propose. Key evidence for this claim comes from the possibility of priming relations involving subject-verb sequences, which are not syntactic constituents.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e306
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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