The head or the verb: Is the lexical boost restricted to the head verb?

Four structural priming experiments investigated whether the lexical boost is due to repeated head verb of primed structure or repetition any verb, testing ditransitive structures (The hotel owner decided loan tourist a tent/a tent tourist). In Experiments 1–3, we manipulated matrix (decided) that not syntactic in structure. The results showed abstract embedded but did priming. addition manipulating also (loan) Experiment 4. It with no verb. These are consistent residual activation model, which only predicts from They do support models predict material sentence boosts