The Role of Auditory Perceptual Simulation in L2 Syntactic Processing

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Jonghyun Lee ◽  
Sung Eun Lee ◽  
MiJeong Song
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Perceptual Simulation

Why the block is the block

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. David Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Simulation Theory ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Perceptual Simulation ◽  
Diverse Community

This study combines Discourse Dynamics (Cameron, 2007) with Perceptual Simulation Theory (Barsalou, 2007; Gibbs, 2006), to analyze a sample of talk among residents of an urban neighborhood about topics related to community safety and the quality of life in their community. The results demonstrate the role of casual conversation in structuring complex social relationships, and the usefulness of close attention to metaphors, story-telling, and humor. By their use, re-use, and development of metaphors and stories the participants in this conversation express and reinforce the patterns of sociability and mutual watchfulness that contribute to a feeling of safety and comfort in their neighborhood, resolve contradictions inherent in life in a diverse community, and cultivate mutual commitment to maintaining the neighborhood as a pleasant community in which to live and raise children.

scholarly journals Exploring the role of cognitive control in syntactic processing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 606-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wolleb ◽  
Antonella Sorace ◽  
Marit Westergaard
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Priming Task ◽  
Priming Condition ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Language Control

Abstract In this paper, we explore the role of cognition in bilingual syntactic processing by employing a structural priming paradigm. A group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and an age-matched group of Norwegian monolingual children were tested in a priming task that included both a within-language and a between-language priming condition. Results show that the priming effect between-language was not significantly smaller than the effect within-language. We argue that this is because language control mechanisms do not affect the access to the shared grammar. In addition, we investigate the interaction between the children’s performance in the priming task and in a non-linguistic cognitive task and find that the two measures are not correlated; however, we find a correlation between the cognitive task and language control, which we measured by counting the number of trials produced in the non-target language. Our findings suggest that language control and domain-general executive control overlap only partially.

scholarly journals The Role of Perceptual Simulation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Min Zhu ◽  
L. David Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Perceptual Simulation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
L2 Vocabulary ◽  
And Control ◽  
Simulation Exercises

Research in embodied cognition suggests that perceptual simulation may play a role in language comprehension. In this study we use a combination of experimental and qualitative research to explore the potential of simulation exercises to improve acquisition of esoteric literary English vocabulary by English majors at a Chinese University. Through quantitative analysis of the data from one pre-test and two post-tests of the experimental and control groups, and qualitative examination of the student feedback collected from an open-ended survey and face-to-face interviews, we find that most of the students in both conditions have simulations of the learned words whether based on self-determined Chinese trigger words or given English language prompts to them, and skilled language learners intuitively adopt perceptual simulations. The research findings give teachers some enlightenment on the pedagogical strategies that might encourage less proficient learners to incorporate perceptual simulations in their study habits.

Autonomy of syntactic processing and the role of Broca's area

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela D. Friederici
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Broca’S Area ◽  
Broca's Area ◽  
Cell Level ◽  
Cell Assemblies ◽  
Brain System ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractBoth autonomy and local specificity are compatible with observed interconnectivity at the cell level when considering two different levels: cell assemblies and brain systems. Early syntactic structuring processes in particular are likely to representan autonomous module in the language/brain system.

Access to verb bias and plausibility information during syntactic processing in adult Spanish–English bilinguals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Patricia Román ◽  
Edith Kaan ◽  
Paola E. Dussias
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Verb Bias ◽  
Second Language Speakers

Abstract In two experiments, we examine how proficient second language speakers integrate verb bias and plausibility information during online sentence comprehension. Spanish–English speakers and native English speakers read sentences in English in which a post-verbal noun phrase (NP) could be interpreted as a direct object or a sentential subject. To examine the role of verb bias, the post-verbal NP was preceded by a verb that is preferentially followed by a direct object (DO-bias verbs) or a sentential complement (SC-bias verbs). To assess the role of plausibility, the semantic fit between the verb and the post-verbal NP was either congruent or incongruent with the direct object interpretation. The results show that both second language speakers and native speakers used verb bias information to assign a grammatical role to the post-verbal ambiguous NP with small differences. Syntactic revision of an initially incorrect DO interpretation was facilitated by the presence of an implausible NP.

The role of syntactic processing in idiom comprehension

2003 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Costanza Papagno ◽  
Annalisa Genoni
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Idiom Comprehension

Activating without Inhibiting: Left-edge Boundary Tones and Syntactic Processing

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 1170-1179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Roll ◽  
Merle Horne ◽  
Magnus Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Main Clause ◽  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Left Edge ◽  
Alternative Structures ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
On Line ◽  
Sentence Adverbs

Right-edge boundary tones have earlier been found to restrict syntactic processing by closing a clause for further integration of incoming words. The role of left-edge intonation, however, has received little attention to date. We show that Swedish left-edge boundary tones selectively facilitate the on-line processing of main clauses, the syntactic structure they are associated with. In spoken Swedish, main clauses are produced with a left-edge boundary tone, which is absent in subordinate clauses. Main and subordinate clauses are further distinguished syntactically by word order when containing sentence adverbs. The effects of tone and word order on the processing of embedded main, subordinate, and neutral clauses (lacking sentence adverbs) were measured using ERPs. A posterior P600 in embedded main clauses and a smaller P600 in subordinate clauses indicated that embedded clauses with sentence adverbs were structurally less expected than neutral clauses and thus were reanalyzed. The tone functioned as a cue for main clause word order, selectively reducing the P600 in embedded main clauses, without affecting the processing of subordinate or neutral clauses. Its perception was reflected in a right frontal P200 effect. The left-edge boundary tone thus seems to activate a main clause structure, albeit without suppressing alternative structures. The P600 was also preceded by a short positive effect in cases where a left-edge boundary tone was absent.

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