@proceedings{bibcite_1101,
  author = {Abigail Fergus and Adele Goldberg},
  title = {False Memory of Grammatical Constructions: Evidence for Structured Construction-Level Generalizations},
  abstract = {<p>Three experiments and a control task combine to indicate that grammatical constructions are implicitly represented in memory, with prototypicality emerging from distributional experience, alongside significant verbatim memory. Participants are exposed to instances of a construction and, following a delay filled by an unrelated language task, falsely endorse novel instances of the same construction more often than paraphrases in a recognition task. Critically, false memories are particularly common for lures containing an unwitnessed word that is distributionally prototypical of the construction, compared to frequency-matched controls. A control study excludes the possibility that the latter effect is simply a word-level effect. Finally, we simultaneously find memory for specific exemplars. Overall performance is above chance yet implicit: participants underestimated their accuracy, which was unrelated to age or education.\&nbsp;</p>},
  year = {2026},
}