Prosody, priming and particular constructions: The patterning of English first-person singular subject expression in conversation

•Unexpressed (“null”) 1sg subjects occur systematically in English conversation.•There are two loci of variation: absolute initial prosodic position and and-coordinated verbs.•The oft-reported cross-linguistic subject continuity constraint has no independent effect.•Priming is strong, such that a pr...

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