Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "syntax"
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Abstract Grammatical Processing of Nouns and Verbs in Broca's Area: Evidence from FMRI
(Elsevier, 2006)The role of Broca's area in grammatical computation is unclear, because syntactic processing is often confounded with working memory, articulation, or semantic selection. Morphological processing potentially circumvents ... -
Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry: An eye-tracking study of prenominal relative clauses in Korean
(Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)Object relatives (ORs) have been reported to cause heavier processing loads than subject relatives (SRs) in both pre- and postnominal position (prenominal relatives: Miyamoto & Nakamura 2003, Kwon 2008, Ueno & Garnsey 2008; ... -
Events and the Ontology of Individuals: Verbs as a Source of Individuating Mass and Count Nouns
(Elsevier, 2008)What does mass-count syntax contribute to the interpretation of noun phrases (NPs), and how much of NP meaning is contributed by lexical items alone? Many have argued that count syntax specifies reference to countable ... -
The Faculty of Language: What’s Special About It?
(Elsevier, 2005)We examine the question of which aspects of language are uniquely human and uniquely linguistic in light of recent suggestions by Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch that the only such aspect is syntactic recursion, the rest of ... -
It Takes Two to Kiss, but Does it Take Three to Give a Kiss? Categorization Based on Thematic Roles
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Language is characterised by broad and predictable mappings between meaning and syntactic form. Transitive sentences typically encode two-participant events while ditransitives typically encode three-participant events. ... -
Linking Language and Events: Spatiotemporal Cues Drive Children’s Expectations About the Meanings of Novel Transitive Verbs
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In the present studies, we provided 3-4 year old children with minimal-pair scene contrasts in order to determine the effect ... -
Linking Meaning to Language: Linguistic Universals and Variation
(Cognitive Science Society, 2010)To use natural language, speakers must map the participants in events or states in the world onto grammatical roles. There remains considerable disagreement about the nature of these so-called linking rules (Levin & Rappaport ... -
Object Control in Korean: How Many Constructions?
(Seoul National University, 2007)Korean seltukhata ‘persuade’ and similar predicates that take a propositional complement (marked with -tolok) license three object control constructions: 1) accusative persuadee in the matrix clause precedes the embedded ... -
The use of prosody during syntactic processing in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)In this study, we employed an eye-gaze paradigm to explore whether children (8-12) and adolescents (12-18) with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are able to use prosodic cues to determine the syntactic structure of an ...