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Features and processing in agreement /

How do we comprehend language? Does our brain differentiate among the different types of grammatical and conceptual information that each sentence we read and listen to contains? Are these mechanisms sensitive to cross-linguistic similarities and differences? To answer these questions, this book pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mancini, Simona, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One; Features in the Minimalist Program; Fine-grained decomposition of agreement projections; Features, anchors and interpretation; Summary; Chapter Two; The online study of sentence comprehension; Sentence comprehension models; Features and interpretation; Summary; Chapter Three; Feature-specific processing: Early evidence; Testing the FIP: Behavioural evidence; Testing the FIP: Electrophysiological evidence; Testing the FIP: Neuroanatomical c; Summary; Chapter Four; The Person Asymmetry Hypothesis
  • 1st/2nd vs. 3rd person: Person underspecification and context-dependencePronoun representation and interpretive anchors; The featural makeup of pronouns; Summary; Chapter Five; When disagreement is grammatical: Unagreement; Unagreement processing and the role of interpretive anchors; Unagreeing, null and overt subjects; Summary; Chapter Six; From feature bundles to feature an; Representations, algorithms and neuroanatomical bases of agreement; Relation to existing sentence comprehension models; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index