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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics

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  • Syntactic/structural priming, the tendency to repeat sentence structures, was initially thought to occur mainly during language production.
  • Early research on language comprehension suggested limited abstract priming, with effects primarily mediated by lexical cues.
  • This led to questions about the modality-specific nature of structural processing and potential differences in underlying mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent findings on structural priming in language comprehension.
  • To evaluate evidence for abstract priming and learning during comprehension.
  • To compare priming effects and underlying mechanisms across comprehension and production.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent empirical studies on syntactic/structural priming in language comprehension.
  • Analysis of findings comparing comprehension and production priming effects.
  • Examination of competing mechanistic explanations for structural priming.

Main Results:

  • Compelling evidence indicates that abstract structural priming and learning occur during language comprehension.
  • These effects in comprehension demonstrate parity with those observed in language production.
  • Recent research helps bridge the gap in understanding structural processing across modalities.

Conclusions:

  • Abstract structural priming and learning are robust phenomena in language comprehension.
  • Mechanisms underlying structural priming appear to be shared across comprehension and production.
  • Further research is needed to fully elucidate structural representation, priming, and learning in comprehension.