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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"syntactic processing"”.
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Prosody and syntactic processing
… phrase boundaries and pitch accents, are used in syntactic processing. Traditionally, it has been argued that while intonational phrase boundaries interact with syntactic structure, pitch accents do not. One apparent exception to this view is work by Schafer, Carter, Clifton, and Frazier (1996) …
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Electrophysiological indices of syntactic processing difficulty
Two types of processing difficulty are examined by means of electrical recordings taken from the scalp. One type of difficulty seems to be related to syntactic structural anomalies and another is related with memory load due to syntactic complexity. An experiment dealing with structural difficulty …
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Bilingual Language Organization: Lexical and Syntactic Processing
… an intermediate nature in their lexical and syntactic processing. The results are interpreted as support for the Mixed Hypothesis and the conclusion is made that, instead of applying the extreme version of the Shared or Separate Hypothesis, the Mixed Hypothesis better integrates and reflects …
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Ambiguity resolution and constraints on syntactic processing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1993.
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Age-related shifts in hemispheric dominance for syntactic processing
… data from young adults have revealed that simple syntactic anomalies elicit a different pattern of lateralization depending upon the familial sinistrality of the participant. Whereas participants with left handed family members elicited a bilateral P600, a component that is typically seen in adult …
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ERP correlates of semantic and syntactic processing in cochlear implant users.
… it is still unclear how it impacts language processing in prelingually and postlingually deaf CI users where the presence and the nature of a critical period for language acquisition has been long debated (Chapter 1). To this aim, we selected well-established ERP components that have been …
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The role of the native language in second-language syntactic processing
… first language (L1) have an influence on syntactic processing in a second language (L2). While the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1982, 1987, 1989, MacWhinney, 1997) predicts that syntactic properties of the L1 can have an influence on L2 processing, the Shallow-Structure Account …
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Characteristics of syntactic processing : an examination utilizing behavioral and fMRI techniques
… two important factors that constrain the syntactic parser of the sentence processing mechanism, syntactic storage costs and plausibility information. It uses behavioral methods to explore the characteristics of the two factors and neuroimaging to explore the underlying neurological …
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On the waves of language: Electrophysiological reflections on semantic and syntactic processing
Contains fulltext : Thesis_MiriamKos.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Individual differences in syntactic processing during reading: a psycholinguist’s “two disciplines” problem
Psycholinguists have identified syntactic structures that are consistently more difficult to read than others. To understand why readers find these structures difficult (and thus, what mechanisms underlie syntactic processing in these contexts), one line of research has sought to link individual …
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Parsing Routines in Syntactic Processing: The Effect of Expected Word Order on Sentence Comprehension
… This hypothesis embodies three claims: (a) the syntactic parsing device has an initial expectation for the SVO (syntactically defined) structure, (b) the parser reads or tracks the syntactic information in the utterance to confirm or adjust its predictions, and (c) the parser has the ability to …
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Sensitive periods for second language acquisition: A reaction time study of the syntactic processing of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… the differences and similarities in language processing by native and non-native speakers of English. The major questions under consideration were: 1) How is age related to second language acquisition and ultimate competence in a second language? 2) Can early learners become as competent as …
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SES-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN WORD LEARNING: EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE INHIBITION AND WORD LEARNING
… differences impact the development of syntactic processing, cognitive inhibition, and word learning. 38 4-5-year-olds from higher- and lower-SES backgrounds completed a word-learning task, in which novel words were embedded in active and passive sentences. Critically, unlike the active …
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Number matters: enhancing nominal number to facilitate subject-verb agreement
… examined whether Chinese-speaking learners’ processing of subject-verb (S-V) agreement in English is modulated by the accessibility of number features in the subject noun phrase, given that in English S-V agreement the verbal form is dependent on the number of the sentence subject. It has …
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An expectation model of referring expressions
… expressions. EMRE is proposed as a model of non-syntactic dependencies - in particular, discourse-level semantic dependencies that bridge sentence gaps. These include but are not limited to anaphora (references to noun phrases in previous sentences) and coherence predicates such as causality, …
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Event Related Potentials of Syntactic Language Processing in Two Children with Specific Language Impairment: A Case Study
… and two aged-matched peers while listening to syntactically correct sentences versus syntactically incorrect sentences. The study specifically analyzed the N400 and P600 components. The N400 component is a negative wave occurring approximately 400 ms post-stimulus and is elicited by …
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Organisation des bilingualen Gehirns : eine EEG-Studie zum Einfluss von Erwerbsalter und Sprachniveau
… proficiency. In contrast, the ERP response to syntactic violation was influenced by both age of acquisition and language proficiency. Besides, a task-specific P600 pattern was observed in relation to language proficiency. These findings suggest that both age of acquisition and language …
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Resting-state and task functional magnetic resonance imaging correlates of early language development in temporal and frontal lobe
… well in only a few short years. Linguistic processing is known to be lateralized to the left hemisphere in the majority of the population. The exact mechanism by which this lateralization emerges is not fully understood. In this dissertation, I use functional neuroimaging to evaluate the …
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The effect of linguistic focus manipulation on truth judgements /
… focus in discourse integration as well as syntactic processing. While these are interesting to study on their own, in order to keep up with a rapid progress in the artificial intelligence field, which Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a big part of, it calls for more pragmatic approach …
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The Functional architecture of language comprehension mechanisms : fundamental principles revealed with fMRI
… mechanisms that are engaged in language processing and the division of linguistic labor across them. Here, I address this requirement from a cognitive neuroscience perspective by employing functional MRI to study the neural implementation of comprehension processes. My experimental …
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