We used functional magnetic resonance imaging in 18 normal volunteers to determine whether there is separate representation of syntactic, semantic, and verbal working memory processing in the left inferior frontal gyrus (GFi). We compared a sentence comprehension task with a short-term memory maintenance task to identify syntactic and semantic processing regions. To investigate the effects of s...

This paper addresses the semantics of the present form (known as the -ru form) of activity verbs in Japanese and examines the effect of these verbs in contrast to that of the inflected form (the -ta form). Garden-path sentences involving an ambiguity between a simple sentential reading and a relative clause reading generally show a preference for the former reading; when the preferred reading p...

The P600 is an event-related brain potential (ERP) typically associated with the processing of grammatical anomalies or incongruities. A similar response has also been observed in fully acceptable long-distance wh-dependencies. Such findings raise the question of whether these ERP responses reflect common underlying processes, and what might be the specific mechanisms that are shared between su...

The current study probes into the comprehension of “DO/S” GP sentences by Chinese EFL learners with different language proficiencies. 70 questionnaires are obtained. results show that 60% triggering condition is not reached in high proficiency group and no ambiguity found, whereas found eliminated low-proficiency group. And level influences emergence GD phenomenon (x2=12.570, p=.000<.05). Q&...

A Computational Model of Syntactic Processing Ambiguity Resolution from Interpretation Michael Niv Mark J Steedman Supervisor Syntactic ambiguity abounds in natural language yet humans have no di culty coping with it In fact the process of ambiguity resolution is almost always unconscious But it is not infallible however as example demonstrates The horse raced past the barn fell This sentence i...

Linguistic processing, especially syntactic processing, is often considered a hallmark of human cognition; thus, the domain specificity or domain generality of syntactic processing has attracted considerable debate. The present experiments address this issue by simultaneously manipulating syntactic processing demands in language and music. Participants performed self-paced reading of garden pat...