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Abstract Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability judgments. While we recognize the… Click to show full abstract
Abstract Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability judgments. While we recognize the merit of drawing attention to a potentially underexplored experimental methodology in language science, we do not believe that the empirical evidence supports B&P's claims about acceptability judgments. We present the relevant evidence.
Keywords:
setting empirical;
acceptability;
acceptability judgments;
record straight;
straight acceptability;
empirical record
Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2017
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