PURPOSE In this study, the authors tested the unique checking constraint (UCC) hypothesis and the usage-based approach concerning why young children variably use tense and agreement morphemes in obligatory contexts by examining the effect of subject types on the production of auxiliary is. METHOD Twenty typically developing 3-year-olds were included in this study. The children's production of...

This paper addresses a fundamental problem of derivational morphology: which meanings are possible for the words given morphological category, forms can be chosen to express meaning, and what is role base in these mappings form meaning? In broad empirical study we examine extent two types nominalizations English – conversion nouns - ing either eventive or referential readings, quantified as cou...

Abstract Background In Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), malignant clones of immature myeloid cells (primarily blasts) proliferate, replace bone marrow, circulate in blood and invade other tissues. The unique presentation of unilateral ptosis and unilateral eyelid swelling in AML has been reported during the present study. Case Report A 7-year-old girl was encountered with progressively increa...

The idea that the form of a word reflects information about its meaning has roots in Platonic philosophy, and been experimentally investigated for concrete, sensory-based properties since early 20th century. Here, we provide evidence an abstract property ‘boundedness’ introduces systematic, iconic bias on phonological expectations novel lexicon. We show this is general across events objects. In...

The electrophysiology of language comprehension has long been dominated by research on syntactic and semantic integration. However, to understand expressions like "he did it" or "the little girl", combining word meanings in accordance with semantic and syntactic constraints is not enough-readers and listeners also need to work out what or who is being referred to. We review our event-related br...

The authors studied the operation of working memory in language comprehension by examining the reading of complex sentences. Reading time and comprehension accuracy in self-paced reading by college students were studied as a function of type of embedded clause (object-extracted vs. subject-extracted) and the types of noun phrases (NPs) in the stimulus sentences, including relative clauses and c...