Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

THE recent article concerning computer simulation 1 is refuted by its first sentence. As the first condition for an acceptable simulation of the way in which human beings recognize syntactic structure ...

Syntactic priming is a cornerstone phenomenon in our understanding of language acquisition, reflecting how exposure to specific sentence structures subtly shapes both immediate language use and ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

Conceptually (see also The Fundamental Relations of Syntax and Conceptual Structure) the head of each sentence is a predicate. The predicate combined with its arguments to form a basic eventuality.

“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.