A paradox of syntactic priming: why response tendencies show priming for passives, and response latencies show priming for actives.

Speakers tend to repeat syntactic structures across sentences, a phenomenon called syntactic priming. Although it has been suggested that repeating syntactic structures should result in speeded responses, previous research has focused on effects in response tendencies. We investigated syntactic prim...

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Main Authors: Katrien Segaert, Laura Menenti, Kirsten Weber, Peter Hagoort
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3191135?pdf=render