In a new procedure called "cued shadowing", subjects listen to pairs of words or to sentences and are asked to repeat a target word signalled by a cue (position of word, voice shift, etc.). This procedure is easy to use with children and clinical populations for whom reading, metalinguistic decisions or complex secondary tasks are problematic. Rapid and robust semantic and grammatical priming effects have been observed with this technique, with word and sentence contexts, at different positions within sentence contexts, in normal children and adults, and in a number of different clinical populations. Specific effects of frequency, length and phonetic structure have also been observed.
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