Syntactic priming is a cornerstone phenomenon in our understanding of language acquisition, reflecting how exposure to specific sentence structures subtly shapes both immediate language use and ...

Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

People often seem to understand language before they have actually heard enough words to determine its structure. In everyday conversation, listeners ...

How does the brain respond to sentence structure as we speak and listen? In a neuroimaging study published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and Radboud ...