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In normal linguistic usage, the inflected nouns of Sorbo-Croatian are usually preceded by prepositions that help to specify which particular grammatical case is intended and to stress the noun’s function in the sentence. In a lexical decision task, it was demonstrated that lexical decision times to nouns in a grammatical case that demands a preposition were faster when the preposition was appropriate to the case than when it was either inappropriate to the case or a nonsense syllable. This result lends support to the intuition that priming can occur among sentential components.
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This research was supported m part by NICHD Grant HD08495 to the University of Belgrade and in part by NICHD Grant HD-01994 to Haskins Laboratories.
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Lukatela, G., Kostić, A., Feldman, L.B. et al. Grammatical priming of inflected nouns. Memory & Cognition 11, 59–63 (1983). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197662
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