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Luigi Rizzi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sentence Syntax and Content in the Human Temporal Lobe: An fMRI Adaptation Study in Auditory and Visual Modalities
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009Co-Authors: Anne-dominique Devauchelle, Catherine Oppenheim, Luigi Rizzi, Stanislas Dehaene, Christophe PallierAbstract:Priming effects have been well documented in behavioral psycholinguistics experiments: The processing of a word or a sentence is typically facilitated when it shares lexico-semantic or Syntactic features with a previously encountered stimulus. Here, we used fMRI priming to investigate which brain areas show adaptation to the repetition of a sentence's content or syntax. Participants read or listened to sentences organized in series which could or not share similar Syntactic Constructions and/or lexico-semantic content. The repetition of lexico-semantic content yielded adaptation in most of the temporal and frontal sentence processing network, both in the visual and the auditory modalities, even when the same lexico-semantic content was expressed using variable Syntactic Constructions. No fMRI adaptation effect was observed when the same Syntactic Construction was repeated. Yet behavioral priming was observed at both Syntactic and semantic levels in a separate experiment where participants detected sentence endings. We discuss a number of possible explanations for the absence of Syntactic priming in the fMRI experiments, including the possibility that the conglomerate of Syntactic properties defining “a Construction” is not an actual object assembled during parsing.
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agreement and movement a Syntactic analysis of attraction
Cognition, 2006Co-Authors: Julie Franck, Luigi Rizzi, Glenda Lassi, Ulrich Hans FrauenfelderAbstract:This paper links experimental psycholinguistics and theoretical syntax in the study of subject-verb agreement. Three experiments of elicited spoken production making use of specific characteristics of Italian and French are presented. They manipulate and examine its impact on the occurrence of 'attraction' errors (i.e. incorrect agreement with a word that is not the subject of the sentence). Experiment 1 (in Italian) shows that subject modifiers do not trigger attraction errors in free inverted VS (Verb Subject) structures, although attraction was found in VS interrogatives in English (Vigliocco, G., & Nicol, J. (1998). Separating hierarchical relations and word order in language production. Is proximity concord Syntactic or linear? Cognition, 13-29) In Experiment 2 (in French), we report stronger attraction with preverbal clitic object pronouns than with subject modifiers. Experiment 3 (in French) shows that displaced direct objects in the cleft Construction trigger attraction effects, in spite of the fact that the object does not intervene between the subject and the verb in the surface word order (OSV). Moreover, attraction is stronger in structures with subject-verb inversion (...). These observations are shown to be naturally interpretable through the tools of formal syntax, as elaborated within the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist tradition. Three important constructs are discussed: (1) the hierarchical representation of the sentence during Syntactic Construction, and the role of intermediate positions by which words transit when they move; (2) the role of specific hierarchical (c-command) but also linear (precedence) relations; and (3) the possibility that agreement involves two functionally distinct components. A gradient of computational complexity in agreement is presented which relates empirical evidence to these theoretical constructs.
L I Xiangling - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a study on the semantic overlapping of the adjectival Syntactic Construction in english
Journal of Xinyang Normal University, 2011Co-Authors: L I XianglingAbstract:In the process of probing how the English adjectival Syntactic Construction is semantically constructed,we find that the different semantics of the adjectival Syntactic Construction is closely related to the different ways language users conceptualize the entities or the events.Due to the different alignment between the autonomous components and the dependent components in this Construction,the same Syntactic Construction expresses different semantics.
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a study on the conceptualization of the meaning of adjectival Syntactic Construction in english
Journal of Linyi Normal University, 2010Co-Authors: L I XianglingAbstract:The valence theory of cognitive grammar provides a powerful explanation to the semantic Construction of the Eng lish adjectival Syntactic Construction.The different semantics of the adjectival Syntactic Construction is closely related to the differ ent ways language users conceptualize the entities or the events.Due to the different alignment between the autonomous components and the dependent components in this Construction,the same Syntactic Construction expresses different semantics.
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cognitive research on np ap to vp adjective Syntactic Construction
Journal of Yibin University, 2008Co-Authors: L I XianglingAbstract:There are basic verb patterns as well as adjective patterns(Constructions) in English.The adjective patterns are the SVC in traditional grammar,with adjectives as predicative.In the article it classifies the adjective pattern NP+AP+to Vp on the basis of the collection and analysis of many examples and it tries to explore its motivation within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics in stereotypical perspective in particular.
Jingmin Li - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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xinghe vs yihe in english chinese translation analysis from the perspective of Syntactic Construction
Perspectives-studies in Translatology, 2011Co-Authors: Jingmin LiAbstract:It is generally recognized that English is xinghe-prominent while Chinese is yihe-prominent among China's translation circles (CTC). Yet there has long been a misconception that hypotaxis is equivalent to xinghe and parataxis is equivalent to yihe, which has resulted in an unrealistic expectation to rely on simple formal alteration to do English-Chinese (E-C) translation and led to masses of awkward translation products. This paper negates the misconception, and expatiates, through example analysis, the Syntactic Construction in English which is form-oriented and features subject-predicate structure and that in Chinese which is meaning-oriented and features message-segments logically strung together. The author holds that, as far as E-C translation is concerned, the significance of learning about xinghe-prominence in English and yihe-prominence in Chinese is to unravel the different message-transfer mechanisms rather than the detailed formal differences between the two languages, which will help the E-C t...
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Xinghe vs. yihe in English-Chinese translation – analysis from the perspective of Syntactic Construction
Perspectives-studies in Translatology, 2011Co-Authors: Jingmin LiAbstract:It is generally recognized that English is xinghe-prominent while Chinese is yihe-prominent among China's translation circles (CTC). Yet there has long been a misconception that hypotaxis is equivalent to xinghe and parataxis is equivalent to yihe, which has resulted in an unrealistic expectation to rely on simple formal alteration to do English-Chinese (E-C) translation and led to masses of awkward translation products. This paper negates the misconception, and expatiates, through example analysis, the Syntactic Construction in English which is form-oriented and features subject-predicate structure and that in Chinese which is meaning-oriented and features message-segments logically strung together. The author holds that, as far as E-C translation is concerned, the significance of learning about xinghe-prominence in English and yihe-prominence in Chinese is to unravel the different message-transfer mechanisms rather than the detailed formal differences between the two languages, which will help the E-C t...
Julie Franck - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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agreement and movement a Syntactic analysis of attraction
Cognition, 2006Co-Authors: Julie Franck, Luigi Rizzi, Glenda Lassi, Ulrich Hans FrauenfelderAbstract:This paper links experimental psycholinguistics and theoretical syntax in the study of subject-verb agreement. Three experiments of elicited spoken production making use of specific characteristics of Italian and French are presented. They manipulate and examine its impact on the occurrence of 'attraction' errors (i.e. incorrect agreement with a word that is not the subject of the sentence). Experiment 1 (in Italian) shows that subject modifiers do not trigger attraction errors in free inverted VS (Verb Subject) structures, although attraction was found in VS interrogatives in English (Vigliocco, G., & Nicol, J. (1998). Separating hierarchical relations and word order in language production. Is proximity concord Syntactic or linear? Cognition, 13-29) In Experiment 2 (in French), we report stronger attraction with preverbal clitic object pronouns than with subject modifiers. Experiment 3 (in French) shows that displaced direct objects in the cleft Construction trigger attraction effects, in spite of the fact that the object does not intervene between the subject and the verb in the surface word order (OSV). Moreover, attraction is stronger in structures with subject-verb inversion (...). These observations are shown to be naturally interpretable through the tools of formal syntax, as elaborated within the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist tradition. Three important constructs are discussed: (1) the hierarchical representation of the sentence during Syntactic Construction, and the role of intermediate positions by which words transit when they move; (2) the role of specific hierarchical (c-command) but also linear (precedence) relations; and (3) the possibility that agreement involves two functionally distinct components. A gradient of computational complexity in agreement is presented which relates empirical evidence to these theoretical constructs.
Christophe Pallier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sentence Syntax and Content in the Human Temporal Lobe: An fMRI Adaptation Study in Auditory and Visual Modalities
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009Co-Authors: Anne-dominique Devauchelle, Catherine Oppenheim, Luigi Rizzi, Stanislas Dehaene, Christophe PallierAbstract:Priming effects have been well documented in behavioral psycholinguistics experiments: The processing of a word or a sentence is typically facilitated when it shares lexico-semantic or Syntactic features with a previously encountered stimulus. Here, we used fMRI priming to investigate which brain areas show adaptation to the repetition of a sentence's content or syntax. Participants read or listened to sentences organized in series which could or not share similar Syntactic Constructions and/or lexico-semantic content. The repetition of lexico-semantic content yielded adaptation in most of the temporal and frontal sentence processing network, both in the visual and the auditory modalities, even when the same lexico-semantic content was expressed using variable Syntactic Constructions. No fMRI adaptation effect was observed when the same Syntactic Construction was repeated. Yet behavioral priming was observed at both Syntactic and semantic levels in a separate experiment where participants detected sentence endings. We discuss a number of possible explanations for the absence of Syntactic priming in the fMRI experiments, including the possibility that the conglomerate of Syntactic properties defining “a Construction” is not an actual object assembled during parsing.
