Never Change a Winning Team: Towards Modelling Syntactic Priming in Language Production

Numerous connectionist models of language production have been proposed in the literature. Most of these models exclusively refer to the process of phonological encoding. One exception is the so called “Illinois Model” which simulates grammatical encoding, especially experimental findings of structural priming. In this paper, we propose an alternative account within the localist connectionist paradigm. This account covers the priming data as well as other phenomena of syntactic processing, i.e. some aspects of agrammatic and paragrammatic language production.