Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust

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Mahowald, Kyle Adam; James, Ariel; Futrell, Richard Landy Jones; Gibson, Edward A
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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.
Date issued
2017
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122804
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Journal
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Citation
Mahowald, Kyle et al. "Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 (2017): e302 © 2017 Cambridge University Press
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0140-525X
1469-1825
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