Context Predicts Word Order Processing in Broca's Region

Word order errors & Processing regimes

Background The topic Word order and FLT Approaches List and match Deep processing Our perspective and approach Two types of word order errors Phrasal verbs Adverb placement Summary References Towards a treatment of word order errors When to use deep processing – and when not to

Word order processing in the bilingual brain.

One of the issues debated in the field of bilingualism is the question of a "critical period" for second language acquisition. Recent studies suggest an influence of age of onset of acquisition (AOA) particularly on syntactic processing; however, the processing of word order in a sentence context has not yet been examined specifically. We used functional MRI to examine word order processing in ...

Putting Things in Context: Sentence Processing in Languages with Flexible Word Order

Word Order Acquisition in Persian Speaking Children

Objectives: Persian is a pro-drop language with canonical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. This study investigates the acquisition of word order in Persian-speaking children. Methods: In the present study, participants were 60 Persian-speaking children (30 girls and 30 boys) with typically developing language skills, and aged between 30-47 months. The 30-minute language samples were audio...

The role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word-order language.

On-line comprehension studies of flexible word-order languages find that noncanonical ('scrambled') structures induce more difficulty than canonical structures [e.g., Hyona & Hujanen, Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 50A (1997) 841-858], with this difference being attributed to the structural complexity/infrequency of these forms. However, by presenting sentences in isolation, most existing studies have not...