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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807018003321

Autore

Mancini Simona <1978->

Titolo

Features and processing in agreement / / by Simona Mancini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-5275-1995-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 152 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

414

Soggetti

Distinctive features (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One -- Features in the Minimalist Program -- Fine-grained decomposition of agreement projections -- Features, anchors and interpretation -- Summary -- Chapter Two -- The online study of sentence comprehension -- Sentence comprehension models -- Features and interpretation -- Summary -- Chapter Three -- Feature-specific processing: Early evidence -- Testing the FIP: Behavioural evidence -- Testing the FIP: Electrophysiological evidence -- Testing the FIP: Neuroanatomical c -- Summary -- Chapter Four -- The Person Asymmetry Hypothesis -- 1st/2nd vs. 3rd person: Person underspecification and context-dependence -- Pronoun representation and interpretive anchors -- The featural makeup of pronouns -- Summary -- Chapter Five -- When disagreement is grammatical: Unagreement -- Unagreement processing and the role of interpretive anchors -- Unagreeing, null and overt subjects -- Summary -- Chapter Six -- From feature bundles to feature an -- Representations, algorithms and neuroanatomical bases of agreement -- Relation to existing sentence comprehension models -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How do we comprehend language? Does our brain differentiate among the different types of grammatical and conceptual information that each sentence we read and listen to contains? Are these mechanisms



sensitive to cross-linguistic similarities and differences? To answer these questions, this book provides a comprehensive overview of existing experimental and theoretical studies on language processing. Special emphasis is given here to the analysis of basic building blocks of language - features - and to an approach that relies on the fruitful interaction among theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience.