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Recent studies of structural priming have demonstrated that although there is evidence of verb-based effects in short-term priming (e.g., stronger priming when verbs are repeated between prime and target sentences), such effects are absent in long-term priming. We present evidence that verb-based effects can be observed in longterm priming situations. This result has important implications for theoretical accounts of the mechanisms that give rise to structural priming and other such adaptation effects in language production.
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The preparation of this manuscript was supported by NSF Grant BCS 0446637.
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Coyle, J.M., Kaschak, M.P. Patterns of experience with verbs affect long-term cumulative structural priming. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 15, 967–970 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.15.5.967
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.15.5.967