Prepositions as a hybrid between lexical and functional category: Evidence from an ERP study on German sentence processing
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Mari Chanturidze, Rebecca Carroll, Esther RuigendijkAbstractIn syntactic theories of word categorization the status of prepositions as belonging to either a lexical (e.g., nouns, verbs) or a functional category (e.g., determiners, complementizers) is under debate. It has also been suggested that prepositions are a hybrid between the two categories depending on their usage. We investigated this classification question empirically in an ERP study with twelve mono-syllabic German prepositions in lexical (e.g., locative prepositions as in o...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - August 4, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Messages must be tuned to the target language: Some implications of crosslinguistic semantic diversity for neurolinguistic research on speech production
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): David KemmererAbstractThere are nearly 6,500 languages in the world, and they vary greatly with regard to both lexical and grammatical semantics. Hence, an early stage of utterance planning involves "thinking for speaking"—i.e., shaping the thoughts to be expressed so they fit the idiosyncratic meanings of the symbolic units that happen to be available in the target language. This paper has three main sections that cover three distinct types of crosslinguistic semantic diversity. Each type is initially elaborated with examples, and th...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - August 3, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Lesion-aphasia discordance in acute stroke among Bengali-speaking patients: Frequency, pattern, and effect on aphasia recovery
ConclusionLesion-aphasia discordance following acute stroke is not uncommon among Bengali-speaking subjects. In the discordant group, preponderance towards non-fluent aphasia was observed. Discordance occurred more frequently after hemorrhagic stroke. Subjects with lesion-discordant aphasia presented better recovery during early post-stroke phase. (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Atypical N170 lateralization of face and word recognition in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Yuzhu Ji, Jing Liu, Xiao-Qian Zhu, Jingjing Zhao, Jiuju Wang, Ying-Chun Du, Hong-Yan BiAbstractAtypical brain lateralization patterns in processing both human faces (reduced right lateralization) and alphabetic languages (reduced left lateralization) have been found in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet, whether Chinese children with ASD show similar atypical brain lateralization patterns in processing faces and language is largely unknown. The aim of the present study was to examine this issue with N170, an event-related potential (ER...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Is Theory of Mind the basis for exhaustivity in wh-questions? Evidence from TOM impairment after right hemisphere damage
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Noga Balaban, Petra Schulz, Naama FriedmannAbstractHow do we know when to provide an exhaustive answer to a wh-question, which mentions all the items that satisfy the property being asked about? We explored the nature of this exhaustivity requirement by investigating whether it is grammatical or based on assessing the information needs of the person asking the question. In Experiment 1 we tested 14 individuals after right hemisphere damage who had Theory of Mind (TOM) impairment (aTOMia), which compromised their ability to assess the in...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Updating emotional information in daily language comprehension: The influence of topic shifts
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Xiuping Zhang, Xiaohong Yang, Yufang YangAbstractTracking and updating emotional information in daily language use is essential for successful comprehension and communication. Using an event-related potential technique, we investigated how the updating of emotional information was influenced by changes in topic with two-pair conversational discourses. The first pair established a topic and a kind of emotional information. The second pair either maintained or changed the topic of the first pair. The description of the topic within the se...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Prosodically controlled derivations in the mental lexicon
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Hatice Zora, Tomas Riad, Sari YlinenAbstractSwedish morphemes are classified as prosodically specified or prosodically unspecified, depending on lexical or phonological stress, respectively. Here, we investigate the allomorphy of the suffix -(i)sk, which indicates the distinction between lexical and phonological stress; if attached to a lexically stressed morpheme, it takes a non-syllabic form (-sk), whereas if attached to a phonologically stressed morpheme, an epenthetic vowel is inserted (-isk). Using mismatch negativity (MMN), we exp...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The role of valence and origin of emotions in emotional categorization task for words
This article presents the results of an investigation focused on the role of valence and emotional origin of word connotations for moderately arousing verbal stimuli for performance in emotional categorization task. The task for participants was to assess whether a given word has for them an emotional meaning. Behavioral results showed a higher proportion of words indicated as emotional for both negative and positive in comparison to neutral stimuli as well as for stimuli inducing automatic originated emotion, as compared to other groups. ERP amplitude differences, localized in specific regions were, observed for valence a...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Semantic unification modulates N400 and BOLD signal change in the brain: A simultaneous EEG-fMRI study
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Zude Zhu, Marcel Bastiaansen, Jonathan G. Hakun, Karl Magnus Petersson, Suiping Wang, Peter HagoortAbstractSemantic unification during sentence comprehension has been associated with amplitude change of the N400 in event-related potential (ERP) studies, and activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. However, the specificity of this activation to semantic unification remains unknown. To more closely examine the brain processes involved in semantic unification, we employed ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 2, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Everyday conversation after right hemisphere damage: A methodological demonstration and some preliminary findings
This study explores how a man with conversational problems following right hemisphere stroke formulated responses to communicative acts addressed to him in everyday conversation. It focuses on communicative acts that were “response mobilising”, i.e., set out clear expectations about who should speak, and how they should respond. This study employed an empirical descriptive case study design to examine 43 min of triadic conversation between the man with right hemisphere damage, his spouse, and a family friend. 61 communicative acts addressed to the man with right hemisphere damage were analysed using conversation anal...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
An elephant needs a head but a horse does not: An ERP study of classifier-noun agreement in Mandarin
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Shiao-hui ChanAbstractClassifiers are essential elements between numerals and nouns in Mandarin (e.g. “one-touCL-elephant”), but whether they serve a semantic or functional/morphosyntactic role in relation to the accompanying noun has been heatedly debated in linguistics. Previous ERP research consistently supported the semantic view with findings of N400; however, the apparent meaning clash in mismatched classifier-noun pairing in these studies might render morphosyntactic processing undetected. We created two violation conditions ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 26, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Processing of non-contrastive subphonemic features in French homophonous utterances: An MMN study
Publication date: November 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 52Author(s): Noelia Do Carmo-Blanco, Michel Hoen, Stéphane Pota, Elsa Spinelli, Fanny MeunierAbstractNative listeners process and understand homophones, such as la locution ‘the phrase’ vs. l'allocution ‘the speech’, both [lalɔkysjɔ̃], without much semantical ambiguity in connected speech. Yet, behavioral experiments show that disambiguation is partial under intra-speaker variability without semantical context. To investigate electrophysiological correlates of perception of non-contrastive subphonemic features in French homophonous seque...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - May 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Semantic processing of metaphor: A case-study of deep dyslexia
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Hamad Al-Azary, Tara McAuley, Lori Buchanan, Albert N. KatzAbstractDeep dyslexia is characterized by the production of semantic errors (e.g., reading the word weird aloud as odd) during oral reading and greater difficulty reading aloud abstract words than concrete words. In this paper, we examine whether deep dyslexia affects higher-order semantic processing; namely, metaphor comprehension. To that end, we asked GL, a participant with deep dylexia, to rate novel metaphors (e.g., language is a bridge) for comprehensibility. The topics of t...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - May 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The involvement of subcortical grey matter in verbal semantic comprehension: A systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI and PET studies
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): E.M. Cocquyt, C. Coffé, P. van Mierlo, W. Duyck, P. Mariën, A. Szmalec, P. Santens, M. De LetterAbstractSemantic processing is a fundamental aspect in human communication. The cortical organization of semantic processing has been exhaustively described, in contrast to inconsistent results on the function of subcortical grey matter structures. Hence, this manuscript reports a systematic review and meta-analysis on the subcortical involvement in verbal semantic comprehension in healthy individuals. The 50 included studies indicate specifi...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - May 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
