Structural priming is determined by global syntax rather than internal phrasal structure: Evidence from young and older adults.

.") the target. In both age groups, we observed limited priming of onset latencies, but robust effects of choice structural priming-participants produced more passive targets following passive primes-that critically did not vary dependent on whether the internal constituent structure matched or mismatched between the prime and target. Experiment 2 replicated these findings for the agent role: choice structural priming was unaffected by age or changes to the prime noun phrase type. This demonstrates that global, not internal, syntactic structure determines syntactic choices in young and older adults, as predicted by residual activation and implicit learning models of structural priming. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).