Evidence from psycholinguistic studies demonstrates that frequent exposure to specific words or grammatical structures increases their subsequent use by adults, a phenomenon commonly investigated via structural and lexical priming.
The claim states that frequent exposure to a word increases the instinctive use of that word in adults. This is a well-established psychological and linguistic phenomenon known as priming or structural priming. Multiple retrieved papers (such as [0], [4], [6], and [9]) investigate and confirm this effect, demonstrating that prior exposure to linguistic items directly increases their subsequent production and use in adults. No retrieved papers refute this well-documented finding, so the verdict is SUPPORTED.