Syntactic priming in language production: Evidence for separate mechanisms for syntactic structure and verb repetition
Syntactic priming in language production refers to the phenomenon that speakers tend to reuse a previously processed construction although having structural alternatives which convey the same meaning. The repetition of words, especially of the verb, boosts this tendency (cf. Pickering Ferreira, 2008) Current debate is whether or not the lexical boost by verb repetition is caused by the same mechanism which is responsible for the verb independent persistence of the abstract syntactic structure (cf. Bock Griffin, 2000; Chang et al. 2006; Jaeger Snider, 2013; Segaert et al. 2016)