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It is now well established that the production (or perception) of one sentence is capable of increasing the probability that the speaker will subsequently produce another utterance of the same or a related type. This phenomenon, which we shall refer to as’ sentence level priming’, has generally been taken to reflect a facilitation of syntactic processes and/or representations as a result of their repeated occurrence. Whilst it is clear that various conceptual features of the utterance also play a role in the production process, it has generally been concluded (e.g. Bock 1986; Bock, Loebell, & Morey 1992) that these do not underlie the priming phenomenon and that they exert independent additive effects on the likelihood of production of a particular sentence type.
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Heydel, M., Murray, W.S. (2000). Conceptual Effects in Sentence Priming: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. In: De Vincenzi, M., Lombardo, V. (eds) Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3949-6_9
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