Title of dissertation: THE STRUCTURE OF MEMORY MEETS MEMORY FOR STRUCTURE IN LINGUISTIC COGNITION Matthew Webb Wagers Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Dissertation directed by: Professor Colin Phillips Department of Linguistics This dissertation is concerned with the problem of how structured linguistic representations interact with the architecture of human memory. Much recent work has attempted to ...

Although deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the basal ganglia improves motor outcomes in Parkinson's disease (PD), its effects on cognition, including language, remain unclear. This study examined the impact of subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS on two fundamental capacities of language, grammatical and lexical functions. These functions were tested with the production of regular and irregular past-ten...

Korean is a morphologically rich language in which grammatical functions are marked by inflections and affixes, and they can indicate grammatical relations such as subject, object, predicate, etc. A Korean sentence could be thought as a sequence of eojeols. An eojeol is a word or its variant word form agglutinated with grammatical affixes, and eojeols are separated by white space as in English ...

Previous findings have demonstrated that hemispheric organization in deaf users of American Sign Language (ASL) parallels that of the hearing population, with the left hemisphere showing dominance for grammatical linguistic functions and the right hemisphere showing specialization for non-linguistic spatial functions. The present study addresses two further questions: first, do extra-grammatica...

This document is a complement of the tutorial on Modelling Biological Sequences by Grammatical Inference organized for the tenth anniversary edition of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2010) held in Valencia, Spain. The tutorial surveys the approaches related to grammatical inference which have been developed in Bioinformatics to model family of sequences, from well e...

In the psycholinguistic literature it has been proposed that readers and listeners often adopt a "good-enough" processing strategy in which a "shallow" representation of an utterance driven by (top-down) extra-grammatical processes has a processing advantage over a "deep" (bottom-up) grammatically-driven representation of that same utterance. In the current contribution we claim, both on theore...

Prior work has related sentence processing to executive deficits in non-demented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). We extended this investigation to patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and PD dementia (PDD) by examining grammatical and working memory components of sentence processing in the full range of patients with Lewy body spectrum disorder (LBSD). Thirty-three patients wit...

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Several studies have suggested that patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have sentence comprehension difficulty in part because of their limited executive resources. However, these assessments confound the executive resources contributing to sentence comprehension with the resources needed for task performance. In the present study, we used a word detection technique that minimizes task deman...

(3) a. Argument Selection Principle In predicates with grammatical subject and object, the argument for which the predicate entails the greatest number of Proto-Agent properties will be lexicalized as the subject of the predicate; the argument having the greatest number of ProtoPatient properties will be lexicalized as the direct object. b. Corollary 1 If two arguments of a relation have (appro...