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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
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Christiansen, Morten H.; Conway, Christopher M.; Onnis, Luca – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the time course and distribution of brain activity while adults performed (1) a sequential learning task involving complex structured sequences and (2) a language processing task. The same positive ERP deflection, the P600 effect, typically linked to difficult or ungrammatical syntactic…
Descriptors: Evidence, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Diagnostic Tests
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Pylkkanen, Liina; Oliveri, Bridget; Smart, Andrew J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Humans have knowledge about the properties of their native language at various levels of representation; sound, structure, and meaning computation constitute the core components of any linguistic theory. Although the brain sciences have engaged with representational theories of sound and syntactic structure, the study of the neural bases of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Semiotics