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Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Kyle Mahowald ,
Ariel James ,
Richard Futrell  and
Edward Gibson
Kyle Mahowald
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. [email protected]@[email protected]
Ariel James
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820. [email protected]
Richard Futrell
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. [email protected]@[email protected]
Edward Gibson
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. [email protected]@[email protected]
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Abstract

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) claim that the success of structural priming as a method should “end the current reliance on acceptability judgments.” Structural priming is an interesting and useful phenomenon, but we are dubious that the effect is powerful enough to test many detailed claims about specific points of syntactic theory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e302
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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