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Sentence Comprehension

2018
This chapter on sentence comprehension reviews prominent sentence comprehension models addressing how people can turn a linear string of words into an understanding of sentence meaning: who did what to whom. A key method is comparing the factors that make one kind of sentence more difficult to comprehend than another, and the chapter discusses the ...
Maryellen C. MacDonald, Yaling Hsiao
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COMPREHENSIVE FOLLOWING SENTENCES

Конференции, 2020
This article is devoted to one of the problematic issues of the syntaxof a complex sentence of the Uzbek language - complex structural subordinatesentences. It outlines the stylistic and semantic properties of complex structuralsubordinate sentences.
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Brain Activation Modulated by Sentence Comprehension

Science, 1996
The comprehension of visually presented sentences produces brain activation that increases with the linguistic complexity of the sentence. The volume of neural tissue activated (number of voxels) during sentence comprehension was measured with echo-planar functional magnetic resonance imaging.
M A, Just, P A, Carpenter, T A, Keller, W F, Eddy, K R, Thulborn   +4 more
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Sentence Comprehension

Interpreting the linguistic signal to understand the event structure of “who did what to whom,” as well as working out the speaker’s intention, is the goal of sentence comprehension. Research on sentence comprehension thus investigates the mechanism of how such understanding takes place. The field of sentence comprehension usually overlaps with that of
Yaling Hsiao, Jinman Li
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Semantic operations deficits in sentence comprehension

Psychological Research, 1980
The ability of aphasic patients to comprehend sentences involving the combination of two linguistic operations was tested in a sentence/picture matching task. Sentences included affirmative, negative, uncompared and comparative types. Aphasic patients had significantly greater difficulty in understanding negative-comparative constructions than sentence
R S, Berndt, A, Caramazza
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Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011
Abstract Aphasia is a disorder of language that sometimes occurs in the setting of brain damage. Aphasic disturbances of syntactic comprehension have been described only in recent decades, and have been characterized as the loss of the ability to understand non‐canonical sentences.
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Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins

Cognition, 1984
Abstract The ability of two bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to understand imperative sentences expressed in artificial languages was studied. One dolphin (Phoenix) was tutored in an acoustic language whose words were computer-generated sounds presented through an underwater speaker.
L M, Herman, D G, Richards, J P, Wolz
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Comprehension of Sluiced Sentences

Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
We report two reading experiments and two questionnaire studies designed to investigate the processing of “sluiced” sentences, like Somebody left- guess who. A self-paced reading experiment showed that sentences with explicit (overt) antecedents are read more quickly than sentences with implicit (covert) antecedents, both when the antecedents in ...
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Increased neuronal communication accompanying sentence comprehension

International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2005
The main purpose of this study was to examine large-scale oscillatory activity and frequency-related neuronal synchronization during the comprehension of English spoken sentences of different complexity. Therefore, EEG coherence during the processing of subject-subject (SS)- and more complex subject-object (SO)-relatives was computed using an adaptive ...
Sabine, Weiss, Horst M, Mueller, Baerbel, Schack, Jonathan W, King, Martha, Kutas, Peter, Rappelsberger   +5 more
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Executive Function and Ambiguous Sentence Comprehension

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2016
Purpose Sentence comprehension is a critical skill in today's literate society. Recent evidence suggests that processing and comprehending language taps cognitive as well as linguistic abilities, a finding that has critical import for clinicians who have clients with language disorders.
Sarah E, Key-DeLyria, Lori J P, Altmann
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