Abstract In recent years, dependency grammars have established themselves as valuable tools in theoretical and computational linguistics. To many linguists, the more standard constituency-based formalisms are notational variants. We argue that, beyond considerations of formal equivalence, cognition may also serve a background for genuine comparison between these different views syntax. this pap...

Many studies have used a neuroscience-based approach towards examination of writing and reading skills and how these might differ between languages. However, few studies have focused on differences in grammatical processing that may be specific to certain languages. Studies have shown that grammar for active and passive sentences differs between Chinese and English. Chinese, a morphologically n...

The study of language organization and the brain has in many ways suffered from an embarrassment of riches. Since the early 1960s when the first applications of experimental psychological methods and theory started to appear in studies of aphasic language (e.g., Goodglass & Gleason, 1960), there have been literally thousands of papers published based on the perspectives of cognitive psychology,...

Computational neurolinguistics (CN) is an approach to computational l inguist ics which includes neurally-motivated constraints in the design of models of natural language processing. Furthermore, the knowledge representations included in such models must be supported with documented behaviorial e v ~ c e , normal and pathological. This paper w i l l discuss the contribution of CN models to ~th...

The focus of the current topic is the analysis and interpretation of second language (L2) and multilingual data. Looking at data from speakers who have learned their additional languages after the mother tongue has become well established is of special interest. It advances our knowledge about how different language systems share space in the same mind, a question to be asked of any kind of mul...

In an investigation of the linguistic abilities of the right or nondominant cerebral hemisphere, it is important to bear in mind the distinction between receptive (listening and reading) and productive (speaking and writing} skills. This paper attempts to highlight recent findings in neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic research on right hemisphere involvement in language function and argues th...

Korean Word Associations (KorWA) were collected to build a semantic network for the Korean language. A graphic representation approach of applying coefficients to complex networks allows us to discern the semantic structures within words. A semantic network of the KorWA was found to exhibit the scalefree property in its degree distribution. The growth of the network around hub words was also co...