Repetition is a central phenomenon of behavior, and researchers have made extensive use
of it to illuminate psychological functioning. In the language sciences, a ubiquitous form of …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

Throughout the 20th century, structuralist and generative linguists have argued that the
study of the language system (langue, competence) must be separated from the study of …

This article reports on an individual differences study that investigated the role of implicit
statistical learning in the acquisition of syntax in children. One hundred children ages 4 …

To examine the relationship between syntactic processes in language comprehension and
language production, we compared structural persistence from sentence primes that …

Purpose: We propose that implicit learning, including syntactic priming, has therapeutic
promise to enhance the syntactic knowledge of children with developmental language …

Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research is an accessible introduction to the
use of auditory, semantic, and syntactic priming methods for second language (L2) …

We use syntactic priming to test the abstractness of the sentence representations of young 3-
year-olds (35–42 months). In describing pictures with inanimate participants, 18 children …

We report two sets of experiments that demonstrate syntactic priming from comprehension to
comprehension in young children. Children acted out double-object and prepositional …