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  • The tendency to reuse syntactic constructions is often attributed to
    syntactic priming. We devise a simple, distribution-based measure of
    priming between linguistic constructions (or syntactic
    rules/categories), and find priming in treebanks of dialogue corpora,
    both for context-free production rules and for Combinatory Categorial
    Grammar categories. It is stronger for task-oriented dialogues, and
    stronger in lexical categories than in syntactic categories.

    As priming cannot be measured directly in language corpora, we use the
    decay of rule repetition probability as a proxy. A limitation of the
    method presented here is that it conflates self-priming and
    other-priming. However, we consider it a great advantage that our
    method takes into account all rules or categories occurring in a given
    corpus, not just a few carefully selected constructions.
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