Do sentences with unaccusative verbs involve syntactic movement? Evidence from neuroimaging
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Do sentences with unaccusative verbs involve syntactic movement? Evidence from neuroimaging
This study focuses on the neural processing of English sentences containing unergative, unaccusative and transitive verbs. We demonstrate common responses in bilateral superior temporal gyri in response to listening to sentences containing unaccusative and transitive verbs compared to unergative verbs; we did not detect any activation that was specific to unaccusatives. Our findings indicate th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2327-3798,2327-3801
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2014.887125