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The (Non)-linguistic Effects of Motion Event Typology
This study tests the hypothesis of linguistic relativity along two lines of research: a) how L2 learners of Chinese and English, respectively, syntactically package semantic components for caused motion (cause, manner, path) in... More >>
N400 Prediction Effects in Relative Constructions
Authors:
Huili Wang*
Ling Meng and Shuo Cao
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Language and Cognitive Science /
2015,1(1): 23−54 / 2015-08-26
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When a context of a strongly constrained sentence structure is formed, N400 as the ERP component of the follow-up word of the structure will be reduced in amplitude. Two accounts can explain this: a passive activation account a... More >>
A Psycholinguistic Account of L1 Lexical Transfer in L2 Production
In its development for more than five decades, numerous empirical language transfer studies have obtained many solid findings in L2 production; however, these findings often concern linguistic expressions but lack deep psycholi... More >>
Neural Correlates of Chinese and Japanese Semantic Processing
Authors:
Hengshuang
Liu
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S.
H.
Annabel
Chen
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Language and Cognitive Science /
2015,1(1): 77−107 / 2015-08-26
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Semantic processing is the ultimate goal of language communication. Chinese characters and Japanese kanji both contain semantic clues in their semantic radicals, However, as Japanese is learned phonologically instead of morphol... More >>
