@conference{Healey.Howes.Purver_LE_2010,
author = "Patrick G. T. Healey and Christine Howes and Matthew Purver",
abstract = "A substantial body of empirical work suggests people have a reliable tendency to match, amongst other things, their conversational partner’s body movements, speech style, and patterns of language use. Recently, a more specific ‘structural priming’ version of this claim has gained prominence. Structural priming occurs when people’s processing of a particular linguistic structure is facilitated by prior exposure to the same structure. Much of the psycholinguistic evidence for these effects comes from experimental studies of single individuals processing a sequence of sentences and it is claimed that it is part of an automatic, resource-free priming mechanism that helps to underpin all successful human interaction. We present evidence from a corpus analysis of ordinary conversation which suggests that this claim is incorrect. ",
address = "T{\"u}bingen, Germany",
booktitle = "Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010",
title = "{D}oes structural priming occur in ordinary conversation?",
url = "http://www.christinehowes.com/papers/healey-et-al10le-abstract.pdf",
year = "2010",
}