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Tesan, Graciela; Johnson, Blake W.; Crain, Stephen – Brain and Language, 2012
The word "any" may appear in some sentences, but not in others. For example, "any" is permitted in sentences that contain the word "nobody", as in "Nobody ate any fruit". However, in a minimally different context "any" seems strikingly anomalous: *"Everybody ate any fruit". The aim of the present study was to investigate how the brain responds to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Anatomy, Language Usage