摘要：Structural priming refers to the tendency for speakers to reuse sentence structures they used previously (Bock,1986). For example, speakers tend to produce double object (DO) rather than prepositional object (PO) structures, asin (1) - (2), after producing DO sentences. Lasting structural priming effects also have been found in healthyspeakers, sustained for up to ten intervening sentences between prime and target trials (Bock & Griffin, 2000), whichhas been considered evidence of implicit learning of abstract linguistic representations (Chang et al., 2006). Studiesusing the priming paradigm with agrammatic speakers show marked priming effects, improving production ofsentences that are difficult for them (Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998). However, it is not clear if and how long priming lastsin agrammatic speakers. Using sentences with three-arguments that are difficult for agrammatic speakers (Thompsonet al., 1997), this study examined the duration of priming by manipulating the distance between prime and targettrials.
