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Can structural priming answer the important questions about language?
Andrea E Martin1, Falk Huettig1, Mante S Nieuwland1
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,6525 XD Nijmegen,Netherlands.andrea.martin@mpi.nlfalk.huettig@mpi.nlmante.nieuwland@mpi.nlhttps://sites.google.com/site/aemn1011/http://www.mpi.nl/people/huettig-falkhttp://www.mpi.nl/people/nieuwland-mante.
Abstract:
Structural priming makes a valuable contribution to psycholinguistics, but it taps into implicit memory representations and processes that may differ from what is deployed during online language processing. As a result, the strength of inductive inference regarding linguistic representation is rather limited. We question whether implicit memory for language can and should be equated with linguistic representation or with language processing.
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