Persistent structural priming from language comprehension to language production

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 437-458

  Bock, Kathryn ^a   Dell, Gary S ^a   Chang, Franklin ^b   Onishi, Kristine H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Implicit learning; Language comprehension; Language learning; Language production; Sentence production; Structural persistence; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34447292338     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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