The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming
Journal of Memory and Language(2023)
Abstract
•It’s not clear whether the lexical boost is limited to heads or not.•We conducted two large-scale syntactic priming experiments with Mandarin datives.•We found that only head repetition yielded a lexical boost in both experiments.•Our results support lemma-based residual activation account of language production.
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Key words
Syntactic priming,Lexical boost,Head constituent,Mandarin
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