Frequency Sensitivity of Neural Responses to English Verb Argument Structure Violations

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

Neural Correlates of Verb Argument Structure Processing

Neuroimaging and lesion studies suggest that processing of word classes, such as verbs and nouns, is associated with distinct neural mechanisms. Such studies also suggest that subcategories within these broad word class categories are differentially processed in the brain. Within the class of verbs, argument structure provides one linguistic dimension that distinguishes among verb exemplars, wi...

Verb argument structure Shanley

representation of these structures (see Tomasello (2000) and references therein, and Sections 13.3.1 and 13.3.2). In theweird word order paradigm, children hear an experimenter describing events using a weird word order (e.g. Ernie Bert pushing or pushing Ernie Bert to describe Ernie pushing Bert) and are then asked to describe similar events in their own words. When the verb is frequent (e.g. ...

Making Verb Argument Adjunct Distinctions in English

2 Semantic Intuitions Concerning the Argument-Adjunct Distinction 4 2.1 Thematic Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Problem of Semantic Intuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Challenges in NLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.4 A Note on Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

ERP Responses to Violations in Japanese Verb Conjugation Patterns

ERP (Event Related Potential) measurement using the violation paradigm of Japanese verb conjugation was conducted in order to investigate the mental and neural mechanisms involved in the processing of different conjugation patterns. A LAN-like component followed by a P600 was elicited for the anomaly of using a tense-bearing form with the negative ending, while only P600 was observed for the an...