Special issue on Structural Priming in Less-Studied Languages and Dialects: Introduction

Abstract

We provide a brief introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science entitled Structural Priming in Less-Studied Languages and Dialects. Structural priming is the tendency for people to use linguistic structures that they have recently encountered. It has been extensively investigated in English and a few related languages, but there has been very little work on the vast majority of languages around the world. We are pleased to publish six papers concerned with Turkish, Norwegian, Irish, Italian, and two varieties of Portuguese. They are informative about many issues in linguistic representation and processing and help diversify psycholinguistics and the cognitive sciences more generally.