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.

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Syntactic priming is the phenomenon where speakers tend to produce grammatical constructions that they have recently encountered or used themselves in conversation. This can result in the other speaker using the same construction, creating a repetition effect. Option A, anaphoric inferencing, refers to the process of using context to understand pronouns and is not related to the phenomenon described. Option B, phonemic restoration, refers to the brain's ability to fill in missing sounds in speech, and option C, garden pathing, refers to the process of temporarily misinterpreting a sentence due to its structure. Neither of these options are related to the phenomenon described.

When Two People Engage in a Conversation, If One Person