OBJECTIVES This study investigated the best predictor to capture age-related changes in passive-sentence production using a constrained sentence-production paradigm and explored the role of working-memory capacity in relation to the task demands of the sentence-production tasks. METHODS A total of 60 participants participated in the study ranging in age from 21 to 86. All were administered a ...

2 Abstract A fundamental task of the language comprehension system is to assign thematic roles to concepts in sentences and then maintain them. The comprehension system has access to two sources of information for thematic roles: one is the syntactic structure, and the other is information in long-term memory. In a sentence such as the dog was bitten by the man, the syntactic source specifies t...

Two kinds of paraphrases extracted from a bilingual parallel corpus were analyzed. One is from an adjectival predicate sentence to a non-adjectival one. The other is from a passive form to a non-passive form. The ability to extract paraphrases is strongly desired for paraphrasing studies. Although extracting paraphrases from multi-lingual parallel corpora is possible, the type of paraphrases ex...

Although by 3or 4-years of age, children are remarkably good at understanding most sentences, many studies have shown that even 5and 6-year old children have difficulty understanding some types of sentences. The reason(s) why are unclear in large part because we know little about how children process sentences. To investigate how children process the sentences, we collected accuracy, reaction t...

Following the idea advanced and developed by a growing number of researchers in which a sentence may involve two tiers of meaning (e.g., Karttunen 1973, Karttunen and Peters 1979, Potts 2005, Roberts et al. 2009, Bosse et al. 2012, Bruening and Tran Ms., Kim, to appear), this paper suggests that (i) in Thai thuuk and doon are syntactic heads which are associated with two dimensions of meaning i...

People comprehend utterances rapidly and without consc ious e f for t . Tradi t ional theories assume that sentence processing is algorithmic and that meaning is derived compositionally. The language processor is believed to generate representations of the linguistic input that are complete, detailed, and accurate. However, recent findings challenge these assumptions. Investigations of the misi...

Previous research has shown that comprehension of complex sentences involving wh-movement (e.g., object-relative clauses) elicits activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and left posterior temporal cortex. However, relatively little is known about the neural correlates of processing passive sentences, which differ from other complex sentences in terms of representation (i.e., noun p...

This research paper discusses the intellectual foundation present in grammatical structure of verbal and nominal sentences Arabic by identifying analyzing specific evidence that goes line with Islamic idea monotheism based on notion presence factors, subject, adjuncts, predication, diacritics etc. The introduction concept language its origins. findings helped explain origin language, creation. ...

Using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), we investigated the role of the left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in sentence comprehension. Subjects were required to judge which of the two pictures correctly matched the meaning of active and passive semantically reversible sentences (subject-verb-object); the incorrect picture did not match the sentence in term o...