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Deleting the Object Marker Renders the Sentence Ungrammatical: Comment on Casado, Martin-Loeches, Munoz, and Fernandez-Frias (2005)
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Demestre, Josep – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
During the last years there has been an increasing interest in examining the brain responses to word order variations. In one ERP study conducted in Spanish, Casado, Martin-Loeches, Munoz, and Fernandez-Frias (2005) had participants read Spanish transitive sentences with either an SVO (subject-verb-object) or an OVS order. The word order of a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Brain
Sign Language and Pantomime Production Differentially Engage Frontal and Parietal Cortices
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Emmorey, Karen; McCullough, Stephen; Mehta, Sonya; Ponto, Laura L. B.; Grabowski, Thomas J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
We investigated the functional organisation of neural systems supporting language production when the primary language articulators are also used for meaningful, but nonlinguistic, expression such as pantomime. Fourteen hearing nonsigners and 10 deaf native users of American Sign Language (ASL) participated in an H[subscript 2][superscript…
Descriptors: Pantomime, Verbs, Deafness, American Sign Language
Control Mechanisms in Bilingual Language Production: Neural Evidence from Language Switching Studies
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Abutalebi, Jubin; Green, David – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
A key question in bilingual language production research is how bilingual individuals control the use of their two languages. The psycholinguistic literature concerning language control is unresolved. It is a matter of controversy whether (a) issues to do with control are central to understanding bilingual language processing; and (b) if they are,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Language Research
An ERP Study of the Processing of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in Japanese
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Ueno, Mieko; Garnsey, Susan M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research on English relative clauses shows that ORs take longer to read (King & Just, 1991) and elicit anterior negativity between fillers and gaps (King & Kutas, 1995), which is…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Japanese
Early Decomposition in Visual Word Recognition: Dissociating Morphology, Form, and Meaning
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Marslen-Wilson, William D.; Bozic, Mirjana; Randall, Billi – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
The role of morphological, semantic, and form-based factors in the early stages of visual word recognition was investigated across different SOAs in a masked priming paradigm, focusing on English derivational morphology. In a first set of experiments, stimulus pairs co-varying in morphological decomposability and in semantic and orthographic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Semiotics
Amnesic H.M. Exhibits Parallel Deficits and Sparing in Language and Memory: Systems versus Binding Theory Accounts
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MacKay, Donald G.; James, Lori E.; Taylor, Jennifer K.; Marian, Diane E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
This study examines sentence-level language abilities of amnesic H.M. to test competing theoretical conceptions of relations between language and memory. We present 11 new sources of experimental evidence indicating deficits in H.M's comprehension and production of non-cliche sentences. Contrary to recent claims that H.M.'s comprehension is…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Sentence Structure, Grammar