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    Area of Science:

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    Background:

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  • Employing mixed-effects regression modeling to account for lexical biases in target sentences.

    • Main Results:

    • Syntactic priming significantly affected the parsing of ambiguous sentences during reading.
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    • Priming effects were observed even without lexical overlap, contrary to some previous findings.

    Conclusions:

    • Methodological differences, particularly lexical biases in ambiguous sentences, likely explain previous inconsistencies in comprehension studies.
    • Syntactic priming operates similarly in both language production and comprehension.
    • The same underlying mechanism likely drives syntactic priming across different language modalities.