Verbal working memory as emergent from language comprehension and production

SC Schwering, MC MacDonald - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This article reviews current models of verbal working memory and considers the role of
language comprehension and long-term memory in the ability to maintain and order verbal …

Superbizarre is not superb: Derivational morphology improves BERT's interpretation of complex words

V Hofmann, JB Pierrehumbert, H Schütze - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
How does the input segmentation of pretrained language models (PLMs) affect their
interpretations of complex words? We present the first study investigating this question …

Acoustic and language-specific sources for phonemic abstraction from speech

A Mai, S Riès, S Ben-Haim, JJ Shih… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spoken language comprehension requires abstraction of linguistic information from speech,
but the interaction between auditory and linguistic processing of speech remains poorly …

Striatum and language processing: Where do we stand?

C Jacquemot, AC Bachoud-Lévi - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
More than a century ago, Broca (1861), Wernicke (1874) and Lichteim (1885) laid the
foundations for the first anatomo-functional model of language, secondarily enriched by …

How the brain encodes morphological constraints during Chinese word reading: An EEG-fNIRS study

F Gao, R Wang, P Armada-da-Silva, MY Wang, H Lu… - cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the role of morphology in alphabetic language processing has been extensively
studied, it is still unclear how morphology is enabled and constrained in morpho-syllabic …

[HTML][HTML] Modularity and granularity across the language network-A primary progressive aphasia perspective

MM Mesulam, CA Coventry, BM Rader, A Kuang… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Tests of grammar, repetition and semantics were administered to 62 prospectively enrolled
right-handed participants with primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Structural brain images …

When morphological structure overrides meaning: Evidence from German prefix and particle verbs

E Smolka, G Libben, WU Dressler - Language, Cognition and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A key question in the study of lexical processing has been whether the semantic
transparency of multimorphemic words affects processing. Previous studies of English and …

African American English speaking 2nd graders, verbal–s, and educational achievement: Event related potential and math study findings

JM Terry, ER Thomas, SC Jackson, M Hirotani - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
A number of influential linguistic analyses hold that African American English (AAE) has no
verbal–s, the–s that, for example, turns drink into drinks in more mainstream English …

How the brain composes morphemes into meaning

L Gwilliams - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Morphemes (eg [tune],[-ful],[-ly]) are the basic blocks with which complex meaning is built.
Here, I explore the critical role that morpho-syntactic rules play in forming the meaning of …

The role of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) as sensitive measures in L2 vocabulary acquisition research

B Vandenberghe, M Montero Perez… - Journal of the …, 2019 - biblio.ugent.be
Neurocognitive measures have only scarcely been used in second language (L2)
vocabulary research. Traditionally, L2 vocabulary knowledge has been gauged by using off …