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The limitations of structural priming are not the limits of linguistic theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

David Adger
David Adger*
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Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom. d.j.adger@qmul.ac.uk http://www.davidadger.org
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Abstract

Structural priming is a useful technique for testing the predictions of linguistic theories, but one cannot conclude anything definitively about the shape of those theories from any particular methodology.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e283
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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