Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Structural priming offers a powerful method for experimentally investigating the mental
representation of linguistic structure. We clarify the nature of our proposal, justify the …

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic
representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability …

Acceptability judgments are no longer acceptable as the holy grail for testing the nature of
linguistic representations. Experimental and quantitative methods should be used to test …

Clearly, structural priming is a valuable tool for probing linguistic representation. But we
don't think that the existing results provide strong support for B&P's model, largely because …

Structural priming is a powerful method to inform linguistic theories. We argue that this
method extends nicely beyond syntax, to theories of meaning. However, priming should still …

A critical flaw in Branigan & Pickering's (B&P's) advocacy of structural priming is the absence
of a theory of priming. This undermines their claims about the value of priming as a …

We agree with Branigan & Pickering (B&P) that structural priming experiments should
supplant grammaticality judgments for testing linguistic representation. However, B&P …

Abstract Branigan & Pickering (B&P) propose that the structural priming paradigm is a Royal
Road to linguistic representations of any kind, unobstructed by influences of psychological …

An experimental approach to linguistic representation Page 1 An experimental approach to
linguistic representation Holly P. Branigan Department of Psychology, University of …