Essays about: "movement priming"

Found 2 essays containing the words movement priming.

1. 1. Should it move or should it stay? How speakers of two Basque dialects organize meaningful elements in transitive clauses

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Anne Goergens; [2015]
   Keywords : free word order; Basque; Navarrese-Lapurdian; Gipuzkoan; focus; information structure; structural priming; economy; Galdegaia; in situ; pied-piping; markedness; complexity; syntactic movement; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates word order patterns in spoken Basque for two dialects, Navarrese-Lapurdian and Gipuzkoan. The data for the analysis was elicited with stimuli pictures in an experiment in dialogue form. The 26 participants were from Hazparne (Lapurdi), Donostia, and Andoain (both Gipuzkoa). READ MORE

3. 2. The Neural Representations of Function Words : Neurolinguistic Beliefs Reconsidered in the Light of Grammaticalisation Theory

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Sabine Gosselke; [2011]
   Keywords : grammaticalisation; neurolinguistics; function words; processing; motor cortex; movement priming; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : It has in recent years been shown that some linguistic items, in particular lexical and abstracted movement verbs, activate the motor cortex in the human brain while being processed. The present study sets out to investigate how far this activation is retained for grammaticalised motion verbs which have shed their lexical content in exchange for grammatical functionality. READ MORE