No looking back: the effects of visual cues on the lexical boost in structural priming

Four structural priming experiments investigated the lexical boost effect in priming. In two experiments, we tested whether repeating subject prepositional object or double ditransitive structures boosted other manipulated repetition of verb. Repetition noun affected priming, but only when prime remained visible while participants produced target sentence. contrast, verb regardless could see and simultaneously. We conclude that is more strategic nature than effect. Structures are automatically associated with verb, their syntactic head, whereas affects if presentation method makes highly explicit.