When two people engage in a conversation, if one person produces a specific grammatical construction in his or her speech and then the other person does the same, this phenomenon is referred to as
A. anaphoric inferencing.
B. phonemic restoration.
C. garden pathing.
D. syntactic priming.
Answer: D
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