Ellipsis sites induce structural priming effects
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Exposure to verb phrase ellipsis in English with double-object or prepositional ditransitive antecedents affects syntactic choices in subsequent sentence production, inducing speakers to favor the production of structures parallel to that to which the ellipsis is anaphoric. This result is readily explanable only if ellipsis sites contain or trigger access to syntactic structure (which causes priming), and is incompatible with nonstructural semantic approaches to ellipsis.
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