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1Department of Linguistics,University of Connecticut,Storrs,CT 06269-1145.jon.sprouse@uconn.eduwww.sprouse.uconn.edu.
Abstract:
Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability judgments. While we recognize the merit of drawing attention to a potentially underexplored experimental methodology in language science, we do not believe that the empirical evidence supports B&P's claims about acceptability judgments. We present the relevant evidence.
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