representations that capture the similarities between these sentences. Production priming has only recently been used to study the nature of children’s linguistic abstractions. Some researchers have found evidence for abstract structural priming in threeand four-year-old children (Huttenlocher et al. 2004, Song & Fisher 2004). Others have not (Gamez et al. 2005, Savage et al. 2003). Recently we...

Introduction: Fundamental notions of mapping hypothesis and canonicity were scrutinized in Persian-speaking aphasics.  Methods: To this end, the performance of four age-, education-, and gender matched Persian-speaking Broca's patients and eight matched healthy controls in diverse complex structures were compared via the conduction of two tasks of syntactic comprehension and grammaticality jud...

the present study intended to investigate the processing behavior of 2 groups of l2 learners of english (high and mid in proficiency) and a group of english native speakers on english active and passive reduced relative clauses. three sets of tasks, an offline task, and 2 online tasks were conducted. results revealed that the high-proficiency group’s performance was the same as that of the nati...