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On the Limits between Grammatical and Ungrammatical Sentences: A Response to Demestre
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Martin-Loeches, Manuel; Casado, Pilar; Munoz, Francisco – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
In this response to Demestre's comment, we first discuss the terms "legal" and "prohibited," applied to syntactic structures, stressing that there are boundaries in which the legality of certain constructions appears imprecise and is a matter of discussion. This coalesces with actual and daily use by native speakers of a language, who can normally…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Native Speakers, Grammar
Processing Flexible Form-to-Meaning Mappings: Evidence for Enriched Composition as Opposed to Indeterminacy
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Roehm, Dietmar; Sorace, Antonella; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2013
Sometimes, the relationship between form and meaning in language is not one-to-one. Here, we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to illuminate the neural correlates of such flexible syntax-semantics mappings during sentence comprehension by examining split-intransitivity. While some ("rigid") verbs consistently select one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Syntax
Does Discourse Congruence Influence Spoken Language Comprehension before Lexical Association? Evidence from Event-Related Potentials
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Boudewyn, Megan A.; Gordon, Peter C.; Long, Debra; Polse, Lara; Swaab, Tamara Y. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
The goal of this study was to examine how lexical association and discourse congruence affect the time course of processing incoming words in spoken discourse. In an event-related potential (ERP) norming study, we presented prime-target pairs in the absence of a sentence context to obtain a baseline measure of lexical priming. We observed a…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Comprehension, Sentences
The Linguistic Processes Underlying the P600
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Gouvea, Ana C.; Phillips, Colin; Kazanina, Nina; Poeppel, David – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The P600 is an event-related brain potential (ERP) typically associated with the processing of grammatical anomalies or incongruities. A similar response has also been observed in fully acceptable long-distance "wh"-dependencies. Such findings raise the question of whether these ERP responses reflect common underlying processes, and what…
Descriptors: Sentences, Topography, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes
The Neural Substrates of Spoken Idiom Comprehension
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Hillert, Dieter G.; Buracas, Giedrius T. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
To examine the neural correlates of spoken idiom comprehension, we conducted an event-related functional MRI study with a "rapid sentence decision" task. The spoken sentences were equally familiar but varied in degrees of "idiom figurativeness". Our results show that "figurativeness" co-varied with neural activity in the left ventral dorsolateral…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Speech, Oral Language
Plasticity of Grammatical Recursion in German Learners of Dutch
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Davidson, Douglas J.; Indefrey, Peter – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Previous studies have examined cross-serial and embedded complement clauses in West Germanic in order to distinguish between different types of working memory models of human sentence processing, as well as different formal language models. Here, adult plasticity in the use of these constructions is investigated by examining the response of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Short Term Memory, Sentences