According to Glasgow and HSE/Northumbria researchers, repetition of non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the effect of syntactic priming, i.e. the likelihood of people reproducing the structure of the ...

“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.

(27-08-2026) Li Gu obtained her PhD title with her thesis "Syntactic, Lexical, and Pragmatic Effects on the Establishment of Shared Linguistic Representations: Evidence from Cross-Linguistic ...