Background: The P600 brain wave reflects syntactic processes in response to different first language (L1) syntactic violations, syntactic repair, structural reanalysis, and specific semantic components. Unlike semantic processing, aspects of the second language (L2) syntactic processing differ from the L1, particularly at lower levels of proficiency. At higher L2 proficiency, syntactic violatio...

this article investigates the syntactic structure of numeral classifiers in persian dps within the minimalist program. numeral classifiers are morphemes by which nouns are numerated by a number category. the morpho-syntactic analysis of classifiers in comparison to the other constituents of dps like number, based on cheng and sybesma (2005), ishii (2000), li(1998, 1999), tang (2004), simpson (2...

Abstract Manner/Result Complementarity (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2010) has been argued to have consequences for argument realization: only manner verbs permit object deletion and non-selected objects. In contrast, result always co-appear with their object, because they are required express the undergoer of change that entail. We discuss new data involving in constructions where encoded by ve...

This paper reports an on-line production study on how different levels of syntactic flexibility influence the production of locative resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Though previous studies show that having two available syntactic structures (flexible condition) facilitates language production and results in less errors and shorter reaction time than having only one possible synta...

In this paper, the syntactic properties of parenthetical reporting clauses in Dutch are investigated by means of a small corpus. It is shown that an analysis in which the quote is looked upon as the direct object of the reporting verb is inadequate. Therefore, an alternative analysis is proposed, viz. one in which the quote and the reporting clause are taken to be adjoined. Such an analysis, ho...

What mechanisms underlie children's language production? Structural priming--the repetition of sentence structure across utterances--is an important measure of the developing production system. We propose its mechanism in children is the same as may underlie analogical reasoning: structure-mapping. Under this view, structural priming is the result of making an analogy between utterances, such t...

Morpho-syntactic patterns device encompasses a subcategory of the cohesive devices that assists hearers to have an adequate mental representation for understanding speech. This article investigates the morpho-syntactic patterns employed in some Persian live sport radio and TV programs adapting Dooley and Levinsohn’s theoretical and analytical framework. The research data includes around 30,000 ...