Structural Priming in Sentence Comprehension
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This study examines structural priming in an on-line reading task that compares reading performance by first and second language readers of English. Robust effects for priming were evident for the second, but not first, language readers, suggesting that priming may occur where there are insufficient sentence traces in memory to support sentence interpretation. The empirical results are simulated using the Syntagmatic Paradigmatic (SP) model, a distributed, instancebased account of sentence comprehension.
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