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Implicit acquisition of grammars with crossed and nested non-adjacent dependencies: investigating the push-down stack model
| dc.contributor.author | Udden, Julia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ingvar, Martin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hagoort, Peter | |
| dc.contributor.author | Petersson, Karl Magnus | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-07T14:52:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-12-07T14:52:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A recent hypothesis in empirical brain research on language is that the fundamental difference between animal and human communication systems is captured by the distinction between finite-state and more complex phrase-structure grammars, such as context-free and context-sensitive grammars. However, the relevance of this distinction for the study of language as a neurobiological system has been questioned and it has been suggested that a more relevant and partly analogous distinction is that between non-adjacent and adjacent dependencies. Online memory resources are central to the processing of non-adjacent dependencies as information has to be maintained across intervening material. One proposal is that an external memory device in the form of a limited push-down stack is used to process non-adjacent dependencies. We tested this hypothesis in an artificial grammar learning paradigm where subjects acquired non-adjacent dependencies implicitly. Generally, we found no qualitative differences between the acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies and adjacent dependencies. This suggests that although the acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies requires more exposure to the acquisition material, it utilizes the same mechanisms used for acquiring adjacent dependencies. We challenge the push-down stack model further by testing its processing predictions for nested and crossed multiple non-adjacent dependencies. The push-down stack model is partly supported by the results, and we suggest that stack-like properties are some among many natural properties characterizing the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms that implement the online memory resources used in language and structured sequence processing. | |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01235.x | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0364-0213 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11165 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Nonlocal musical rules | |
| dc.subject | Syntactic structure | |
| dc.title | Implicit acquisition of grammars with crossed and nested non-adjacent dependencies: investigating the push-down stack model | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 1101 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 6 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 1078 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Cognitive Science | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 36 | |
| person.familyName | Ingvar | |
| person.familyName | Petersson | |
| person.givenName | Martin | |
| person.givenName | Karl Magnus | |
| person.identifier | 13089 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 6D14-B1D1-1532 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-9041-5714 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-8245-0392 | |
| person.identifier.rid | E-8188-2012 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 7006470225 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | |
| rcaap.type | article | |
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