Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings
Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings
Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings
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distinction between semantic and syntactic processing somehow relative, do not<br />
corroborate Ullman’s declarative-procedural model (Ullman, 2004) in which syntax is<br />
related to procedural memory and semantics to declarative. In addition, if one accepts the<br />
idea that a word contains some syntactic in<strong>for</strong>mation (e.g. logical <strong>for</strong>m of the verb in<br />
RRG or word templates in MUC (Hagoort, 2005, Vosse & Kempen, 2000)) a chance to<br />
dissociate syntax and semantics and obtain some trace of pure syntactic process seems<br />
rather slim especially <strong>for</strong> language such as Croatian, in which grammatical violations<br />
such as violations in case carry important semantic in<strong>for</strong>mation about thematic relations.<br />
The eADM model does not address the processing that is related to the operator<br />
projection. The model accounts only <strong>for</strong> the processing of core constituents (verbs and<br />
arguments). There<strong>for</strong>e, the 'tense' experiment is not relevant as evidence in favor or<br />
against this model. Since there are no predictions regarding ERP components that could<br />
be expected in the 'tense' experiment, it cannot be said that the late negativity was not<br />
predicted by the eADM (as it cannot be said that it was predicted). In short, the 'tense'<br />
experiment is not a test <strong>for</strong> the eADM. However, together with the ‘quantifier’<br />
experiment in which N400 was obtained, the results of the ‘tense’ experiment (N400’)<br />
may suggest possible future developments of eADM in this direction. As already stated<br />
(pp. 106-107), syntax-to-semantics interface may be supplemented with a linkage<br />
between operator projection and a set of relations defined by philosophical logic. Role<br />
and Reference Grammar provides an account <strong>for</strong> the obtained results, i.e. it can capture a<br />
generalization in this respect: both N400 and N400’ represent processes related to the<br />
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