According to Glasgow and HSE/Northumbria researchers, repetition of non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the effect of syntactic priming, i.e. the likelihood of people reproducing the structure of the ...
Syntactic priming refers to the tendency for speakers and listeners to repeat grammatical structures they have recently encountered. In language production, this phenomenon manifests when exposure to ...
“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.