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However, recent work has failed to replicate effects indicating a penalty for the preferred, more frequent continuation, despite finding a speedup in syntactic repair times after initial exposure to the dispreferred, infrequent structure (Harrington-Stack, James, & Watson, 2018). The current study reports three self-paced reading experiments that tested whether co-occurring cues (explicit comprehension questions, preceding semantic cues, and font color) can help facilitate adaptation to reduced relative/main verb garden path sentences. Results suggest that readers do not overcome pre-existing predictive biases by rapidly adapting to statistically novel linguistic contexts. 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The current study reports three self-paced reading experiments that tested whether co-occurring cues (explicit comprehension questions, preceding semantic cues, and font color) can help facilitate adaptation to reduced relative/main verb garden path sentences. Results suggest that readers do not overcome pre-existing predictive biases by rapidly adapting to statistically novel linguistic contexts. 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