Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) claim that the success of structural priming as a method should “end the current reliance on acceptability judgments.” Structural priming is an interesting and useful phenomenon, but we are dubious that the effect is powerful enough to test many detailed claims abo...

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Main Authors: Mahowald, Kyle Adam, James, Ariel, Futrell, Richard Landy Jones, Gibson, Edward A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122804
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author Mahowald, Kyle Adam
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description Branigan & Pickering (B&P) claim that the success of structural priming as a method should “end the current reliance on acceptability judgments.” Structural priming is an interesting and useful phenomenon, but we are dubious that the effect is powerful enough to test many detailed claims about specific points of syntactic theory.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1228042022-09-26T12:12:31Z Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust Mahowald, Kyle Adam James, Ariel Futrell, Richard Landy Jones Gibson, Edward A Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Branigan & Pickering (B&P) claim that the success of structural priming as a method should “end the current reliance on acceptability judgments.” Structural priming is an interesting and useful phenomenon, but we are dubious that the effect is powerful enough to test many detailed claims about specific points of syntactic theory. 2019-11-08T17:20:35Z 2019-11-08T17:20:35Z 2017 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0140-525X 1469-1825 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122804 Mahowald, Kyle et al. "Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 (2017): e302 © 2017 Cambridge University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x17000504 Behavioral and Brain Sciences Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press (CUP) Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett
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title_short Structural priming is most useful when the conclusions are statistically robust
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