Considering experimental and observational evidence of priming together, syntax doesn't look so autonomous.
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چکیده
We agree with Branigan & Pickering (B&P) that structural priming experiments should supplant grammaticality judgments for testing linguistic representation. However, B&P overlook a vast (corpus-)linguistic literature that converges with - but extends - the experimental findings. B&P conclude that syntax is functionally independent of the lexicon. We argue that a broader approach to priming reveals cracks in the façade of syntactic autonomy.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
دوره 40 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017