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Syntactic priming occurs when processing of a target sentence is facilitated following processing of a prime sentence that has the same syntactic structure (Bock, 1986 Cognitive Psychology, 18. 355–387). Syntactic priming has been widely investigated in production (Bock, 1986 Cognitive Psychology, 18. 355–387; Bock and Griffin, 2000 General. 129(2). 177–192; Cleland and Pickering, 2003. Journal of Memory and Language, 49. 214–230; Cleland and Pickering 2006. Journal of Memory and Language, 54. 185–198; Pickering and Branigan, 1998. Journal of Memory and Language, 39. 633–651; and others), but only relatively recently in comprehension (Arai et al. 2007. Cognitive Psychology, 54(3). 218–250; Ledoux et al., 2007. Psychological Science. 18(2). 135–143; and others). This article reviews the current literature on syntactic priming in comprehension and contrasts these findings to those in production …