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Interactions Between Lexical And Syntactic Knowledge During Incremental Processing Of The Causative Construction In English, G. Taylor Brooks 
Georgia State University
Interactions Between Lexical And Syntactic Knowledge During Incremental Processing Of The Causative Construction In English, G. Taylor Brooks
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
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La Restricción Del Pronombre Explícito En Los Hablantes De Herencia Hispano, Ewelina Barski 
Western University
La Restricción Del Pronombre Explícito En Los Hablantes De Herencia Hispano, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski
A talk given on my dissertation topic, discussing Spanish heritage speakers in Canada and their interpretation of the Overt Pronoun Constraint. The talk was presented at a 4th year Spanish linguistics class - Spanish in Contact (SP4412F) - at Western University. The presentation was done in Spanish.
N400 But No P600 With Semantic Anomalies, Elojika Thavendran 
McMaster University
N400 But No P600 With Semantic Anomalies, Elojika Thavendran
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Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used extensively in the scientific research of cognitive processing such as language comprehension. Specific responses, such as the negativity called N400 (Kutas & Hillyard, 1980), have in the literature typically been associated with semantic violations in sentences. Another electrophysiological response, the positive P600 waveform, has mostly been associated with syntactic and morphological violations. However, recently, the P600 has been reported also in connection with semantic violations (Kuperberg et al, 2003; van Herten, 2004; Osterhout, 2004). The present research further explores the neurophysiological correlates of processing sentences with semantic and morpho-syntactic violations. It tests the functional interpretations of the P600 component, which has been proposed to reflect syntactic error detection, context updating, or syntactic reanalysis or repair. I contrasted semantic and syntactic possessive violations. The semantic violation conditions (i.e. The mother borrowed the car’s daughter for work yesterday), morphosyntactic violations (i.e ...
Not All Forms Of Morphological Mismatch Are Acceptable In Verb-Phrase Ellipsis, Tiffany Deschamps McMaster University
Not All Forms Of Morphological Mismatch Are Acceptable In Verb-Phrase Ellipsis, Tiffany Deschamps
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The Recycling Hypothesis of verb-phrase ellipsis states that elided verb phrases with non-parallel antecedents are interpreted by reconstructing the appropriate verb phrase structure using the information available in the antecedent (Arregui, Frazier, Clifton, & Moulton, 2006). The hypothesis predicts that structurally more complex antecedents will involve more complicated reconstruction operations, which will lower the acceptability of the sentences. The experiments reported in this thesis tested two underlying assumptions of the Recycling Hypothesis as well as one prediction that follows from the proposal. First, the hypothesis assumes that elided verb phrases with parallel antecedents are interpreted by copying the structure of the ...
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Thomas Hudgins
Liberty University
Ileana Paul
Western University
Ewelina Barski
Western University
Joel Wallenberg
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Georgia State University
Emily Elfner
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Elojika Thavendran
McMaster University
Ielka van der Sluis
Dublin Institute of Technology
John Kelleher
Dublin Institute of Technology
Brian Mac Namee
Dublin Institute of Technology
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Interactions Between Lexical And Syntactic Knowledge During Incremental Processing Of The Causative Construction In English, Gregory Brooks
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N400 But No P600 With Semantic Anomalies, Elojika Thavendran
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