The cognitive neural mechanisms of verb argument structure complexity processing

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...

Neural Mechanisms of Verb Argument Structure Processing in Agrammatic Aphasic and Healthy Age-matched Listeners

Processing of lexical verbs involves automatic access to argument structure entries entailed within the verb's representation. Recent neuroimaging studies with young normal listeners suggest that this involves bilateral posterior peri-sylvian tissue, with graded activation in these regions on the basis of argument structure complexity. The aim of the present study was to examine the neural mech...

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

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. ...

Probabilistic Models of Verb-Argument Structure

We evaluate probabilistic models of verb argument structure trained on a corpus of verbs and their syntactic arguments. Models designed to represent patterns of verb alternation behavior are compared with generic clustering models in terms of the perplexity assigned to held-out test data. While the specialized models of alternation do not perform as well, closer examination reveals alternation ...