Research has shown that language processing relies on rich knowledge about common events and their participants (see McRae and Matsuki, 2009, for a review). This generalized event knowledge is learned ...

1 Department of English Language and Linguistics, Rutherford College, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK 2 Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, ...

Ajay plays the big, black grand piano. Teagan watches television. Some verbs do not need an object to make sense. These either: Work alone, as in, ‘Connor screamed.’ Describes a ‘state’ as in, ‘Maire ...

An interesting fact about language cognition is that stimulation involving incongruence in the merge operation between verb and complement has often been related to a negative event-related potential ...

An SPhraseSpec can have multiple subjects, objects and complements but not multiple verbs (although a future version of SimpleNLG might include this functionality). This is done with the ...

The ability to use language proficiently transcends the natural acquisition which everyone is endowed with. The knowledge of permissible structures and word order is crucial for anyone who desires to ...