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Pickering, Martin J.; Ferreira, Victor S. – Psychological Bulletin, 2008
Repetition is a central phenomenon of behavior, and researchers have made extensive use of it to illuminate psychological functioning. In the language sciences, a ubiquitous form of such repetition is "structural priming," a tendency to repeat or better process a current sentence because of its structural similarity to a previously experienced…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory