Structural priming and the phrasal/clausal distinction: the case of concealed questions
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This paper investigates whether structural priming is sensitive to the phrasal vs. clausal nature of the constructions it tests. To that end, we examine NPs that receive a question-like interpretation when embedded under certain predicates. These NPs study that establishes co-occurrence patterns of the target embedding predicates. We t Both written sentence completion tasks demonstrate structural priming, which turns out to be sensitive to the phrase-clause distinction.
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