Existence: Semantics and Syntax This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. The papers analyze the interaction between the basic notion of existence and pervasive phenomena of natural language, such as quantification and presupposition. The contributions represent state of the art research on theoretical and comparative issues related to the expression of existence, and make extensive reference to the semantic and syntactic facts of English and of various other languages. The richness of new data and the juxtaposition of different theoretical stances bring a number of new questions into focus.
Brain Research in Language addresses important neurological issues
involved in reading. The reading process is a highly composite
cognitive task, which relies on brain systems that were originally
devoted to other functions. The majority of studies in this area have
implemented behavioral methodologies, which provide information
concerning the entire cognitive sequence at the conclusion of
processing only, in the readers output. However, these measures cannot
specify all of the covert component operations that contribute to
reading, nor can they determine the relative processing times required
by the individual stages. Furthermore, they cannot determine which
processes occur serially, which occur in parallel and which overlap in
time (Brandeis & Lehmann, 1994; Johnson, 1995). Recent advancements
in the field of neuroscience and cognitive development, however, have
added a new dimension with regard to the research into the universal
and domain specific aspects of reading with the advent of innovative
neurophysiological measurement techniques. The most common are
electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging
(FMRI). These two methods provide researchers with the opportunity to
examine, in-depth, the neural correlates of the reading processing with
precise temporal and spatial resolutions, respectively. This book
presents data obtained from various studies employing behavioral,
electrophysiological and imaging methodologies in different languages
focusing on the regular reading process and the dyslexic population.
Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence
relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship
between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a
relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of
the field's independent existence. At the beginning of the 21st
Century, psycholinguistics forms part of the rapidly developing
enterprise known as cognitive neuroscience, in which the relationship
between biology and behavior plays a central role. Psycholinguistics is
about language in communication, so that the relationship between
language production and comprehension has always been important, and as
psycholinguistics is an experimental discipline, it is likewise
essential to find the right relationship between model and experiment.
This book focuses in turn on each of these four cornerstone
relationships: Psychology and Linguistics, Biology and Behavior,
Production and Comprehension, and Model and Experiment. The authors are
from different disciplinary backgrounds, but share a commitment to
clarify the ways that their research illuminates the essential nature
of the psycholinguistic enterprise.
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This text sets high standards for rigor and scientific approach to the
study of bilingualism and provides insights regarding the critical
issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of
linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status,
the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the
role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic
training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of
outcomes reported in the volume should provide a frame for
interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years
to come.
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