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Investigating syntactic movement in the brain

Investigating syntactic movement in the brain. Dr Zarinah Agnew Dr Hans van de Koot Professor Sophie Scott. UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. Background: syntactic movement.

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Investigating syntactic movement in the brain

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  1. Investigating syntactic movement in the brain Dr Zarinah Agnew Dr Hans van de Koot Professor Sophie Scott UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

  2. Background: syntactic movement When a phrase appears in a displaced position in a sentence, so that its position does not coincide with the position in which it is interpreted THAT vase e.g. THAT vase, you should not break Passive: e.g. The vase was broken THE vase Unaccusative: e.g. The vase broke THE vase Unergative : e.g. John slept THE vase

  3. Experimental Setup 5 conditions - passive listening to: - unaccusative verbs (e.g. The colours faded the day after the wash) Internal argument - unergative verbs (e.g. one athlete hesitated a moment into his jump) External argument - transitive verbs (e.g. the thief abandoned the car after the crash) Both - auditory baseline - silent rest Want to capture this 1 to 2 seconds 4 sec stimuli 3 sec scan 2 sec ISI 1 sec 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 events, 5 conditions, 10sec TR: 25 minutes

  4. What do we expect to find: Conjunction: Unaccusative VS Unergatives and Unaccusatives Vs Transitives: Left IFG and left MTG Shetreet, Friedmann & Hadar, 2009 Key difference: In Hebrew some unaccusatives have a morphological marking. This is not the case in English

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