Article
Behavioral Sciences
Evgenii Kalenkovich, Anna Shestakova, Nina Kazanina
Summary: The study aimed to empirically investigate sentence comprehension, constructing two different types of sentence structures in Russian and finding that listeners tend to track the sentence structure more in line with the lexico-semantic model rather than the hierarchical syntactic model.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Daria Chernova, Artem Novozhilov, Natalia Slioussar
Summary: This study developed a Sentence Comprehension Test for the Russian language to assess syntactic processing abilities among adult native speakers, aiming to address the lack of previous evaluations in this area. By testing sentence complexity and comprehension questions, the test captures variation among participants.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Shannon M. Sheppard, Erin L. Meier, Kevin T. Kim, Bonnie L. Breining, Lynsey M. Keator, Bohao Tang, Brian S. Caffo, Argye E. Hillis
Summary: This study compared sentence comprehension abilities in acute and chronic stage left hemisphere stroke patients, identifying factors related to the severity of damage to Broca's area, supramarginal gyrus, and superior longitudinal fasciculus. The results suggest that intact Broca's area may support syntactic processing after functional reorganization when temporoparietal regions are damaged.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Sophie M. Hardy, Ole Jensen, Linda Wheeldon, Ali Mazaheri, Katrien Segaert
Summary: This study used magnetoencephalography to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in sentence comprehension, specifically the binding of words at the syntax level. The findings revealed that syntax binding was associated with alpha band activity in left-lateralized language regions. Overall, the study highlights the crucial role of alpha band activity in controlling the allocation and coordination of brain resources during syntax composition.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Jin Wang, Neelima Wagley, Mabel L. Rice, James R. Booth
Summary: The study found that children aged 5 to 6 exhibited semantic specialization in the temporal lobe, while children aged 7 to 8 showed both semantic and syntactic specialization in both the temporal and frontal lobes. This suggests a developmental progression in language processing from temporal to frontal regions in children.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Hannah S. Sarvasy, Adam Milton Morgan, Jenny Yu, Victor S. Ferreira, Shota Momma
Summary: This study examines the impact of switch-reference marking in the sentence structure of Nungon language on language planning in comprehension and production processes. The study found evidence for advance planning in production, while no evidence was found for predictive processing during comprehension.
MEMORY & COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Mads Poulsen, Jessie Leigh Nielsen, Rikke Vang Christensen
Summary: This study investigates the role of syntactic knowledge and its relation to reading comprehension. The results suggest that syntactic tests are more strongly correlated with each other and explain unique variance in reading comprehension. While syntax tasks rely on working memory, it is not the primary reason for their correlation with reading comprehension.
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Xulang Zhang, Rui Mao, Erik Cambria
Summary: Computational syntactic processing is a fundamental technique in natural language processing that transforms natural language into structured texts with syntactic features. This work surveys low-level syntactic processing techniques such as normalization, sentence boundary disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, text chunking, and lemmatization, categorizes widely used methods, investigates challenges, and proposes future research directions.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Sakshi Bhatia, Samar Husain
Summary: This paper investigates the difficulty of forming a clause-final structure in Hindi (an SOV language) in the presence of a center-embedded relative clause with a non-canonical word order. The study shows that this difficulty is not driven by top-down processing, but can be explained through a bottom-up parsing approach.
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Junyoung Shin, Shinhee Noh, Jimin Park, Jee Eun Sung
Summary: This study investigates the difficulties in auditory sentence comprehension for older adults with hearing loss compared to those with typical hearing when the linguistic burdens of syntactic complexity were manipulated. The findings suggest that older adults with hearing loss struggle more with passive sentences compared to active sentences, even when controlling for sentence length. Working memory capacity was identified as the most significant predictor for the comprehension of passive sentences among individuals with hearing loss.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jee Eun Sung, Heekyung Ahn, Sujin Choi, Kiseop Lee
Summary: This study aimed to describe the properties of a novel syntactic assessment battery and present descriptive data on normal elderly individuals. The results showed that the syntactic assessment battery effectively detected age and education effects, with people generally performing worse as they aged but better as their educational levels increased.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Luyao Chen, Tomas Goucha, Claudia Maennel, Angela D. Friederici, Emiliano Zaccarella
Summary: The study investigates the impact of hierarchical structures in artificial grammar on the brain's syntax processing, revealing that the construction of syntax critically depends on a unique left-hemispheric syntactic network involving Broca's area BA 44 and the posterior superior temporal gyrus. This suggests that the novel artificial grammar can serve as a suitable experimental tool to study syntax-specific processes in the human brain.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2021)
Article
Linguistics
Theres Gruter, Holger Hopp
Summary: The study found that the timing of linguistic input plays a critical role in crosslinguistic influence in sentence processing among late bilinguals, with language input being more important than current language use.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Sophie Slaats, Hugo Weissbart, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Antje S. Meyer, Andrea E. Martin
Summary: This study examines the impact of sentence structure on low-frequency neural readouts. The results indicate that word frequency responses in the delta band are influenced by sentence context in terms of timing and location. Additionally, the presence of a sentence context determines the responsiveness of inferior frontal areas to lexical information. In conclusion, sentence structure affects the neural representation of words.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Marianna Stella, Paul E. Engelhardt
Summary: This study investigated eye movements and comprehension in dyslexic readers when processing sentences with relative clauses. Results showed dyslexic readers read at a slower pace but with similar comprehension accuracy compared to non-dyslexic controls. Working memory plays a significant role in reading speed and syntactic processing in dyslexic individuals.
