Working Memory and Theories of Syntactic Complexity

1 " I don't see any principled way to distinguish linguistics from neurolinguistics any more than one can distinguish chemistry from physical chemistry in principle. These may be useful distinctions for temporary purposes, but one looks forward to erosion of such boundaries as understanding progresses. My own view has always been that the part of the study of language relevant here is in principle part of human biology: 'biolinguistics', as some have called it " Noam Chomsky, interview with Brigitte Stemmer, Brain and Language 68, 393-401 Section 1-Working memory explanations for processing complexity ………………….. Section 6 – Discussion…………………………………………………………………………… Section 6.1 Preliminary explanation for the cross-linguistic difference……………………….. Section 6.2 A tentative syntactic working memory metric……………………………………… Section 7 – Experiment proposals…………………………………………………………….. Section 7.1 Eye-tracking experiment……………………………………………………………… Section 7.2 EEG/ERP experiment………………………………………………………………..