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Structural priming is a useful but imperfect technique for studying all linguistic representations, including those of pragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Alice Rees  and
Lewis Bott
Alice Rees
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom. Reesa34@cardiff.ac.ukBottla@cardiff.ac.ukhttp://psych.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/reesa34.phphttp://psych.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/bottla.php
Lewis Bott
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom. Reesa34@cardiff.ac.ukBottla@cardiff.ac.ukhttp://psych.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/reesa34.phphttp://psych.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/bottla.php
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Abstract

Structural priming is a useful tool for investigating linguistics representations. We argue that structural priming can be extended to the investigation of pragmatic representations such as Gricean enrichments. That is not to say priming is without its limitations, however. Interpreting a failure to observe priming may not be as simple as Branigan & Pickering (B&P) imply.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e307
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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