This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Taking Chomsky's Syntactic Structures as a starting point, this paper explores the use of recursive techniques in contemporary linguistic ...

Introduction: Human language allows us to generate an infinite number of linguistic expressions. It’s proposed that this competence is based on a binary syntactic operation, Merge, combining two ...

Syntactic priming is a cornerstone phenomenon in our understanding of language acquisition, reflecting how exposure to specific sentence structures subtly shapes both immediate language use and ...

The Journal of Logic, Language and Information explores the foundations of natural, formal, and programming languages, as well as the different forms of human and mechanized inference. It covers the ...

THE recent article concerning computer simulation 1 is refuted by its first sentence. As the first condition for an acceptable simulation of the way in which human beings recognize syntactic structure ...

Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

Human linguistic ability is based on the ability to apply syntactic rules. They determine the way words are combined to form phrases and sentences. In the human brain, the construction of syntactic ...

From language and memory, to music and narrative – humans display the ability to create and understand complicated sequences. This project proposes that this syntactical ability lies at the heart of ...

Conceptually (see also The Fundamental Relations of Syntax and Conceptual Structure) the head of each sentence is a predicate. The predicate combined with its arguments to form a basic eventuality.