Can prosody be primed

Although prosodic phrasing is assumed to be a distinct, abstract level of linguistic representation (3), there is also work claiming that boundaries are simply temporary junctures where planning occurs (4). In three experiments, we investigate whether prosodic structure can be primed. Early work in production used priming of syntactic structure to argue for an abstract level of syntactic representation (2); by analogy, if prosodic structure can be primed, this would suggest that prosodic structure is also abstractly represented.