Structural facilitation: Mere exposure effects for grammatical acceptability as evidence for syntactic priming in comprehension

摘要: In Wve experiments, participants Wrst read grammatical sentences of English and later rated identical, structurally similar, or novel for acceptability. The experimental method was modeled after “mere exposure” artiWcial grammar learning paradigms in which preference ratings are enhanced by prior experience with the material. Participants as more if they had them earlier. Increased grammaticality were also observed that shared syntactic structure, but not content words, those A single exposure to a similar sentence suYcient induce this structural facilitation eVect, although exposures eVect. We interpret results respect frequency sensitive models parsing priming language production, we consider available evidence representations mechanisms production comprehension.