European starlings have the ability to learn to classify complex grammatical patterns that follow a context-free grammar (CFG) composed of song motifs (Gentner, et al., 2006). Cotton-top tamarins cannot classify CFG patterns, when exposed to patterns composed of human speech (Fitch & Hauser, 2004). Beyond differences in species-specific cognitive ability, methodological differences might accoun...

Anterior negativities obtained when a grammatical rule is violated may reflect highly automatic first-pass parsing processes, the detection of a morphosyntactic mismatch, and/or the inability to assign the incoming word to the current phrase structure. However, for some theorists these negativities rather reflect some aspect of working memory processes. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) obt...

Abstract The interaction of lexical actionality with grammatical aspect is explained in a comprehensive system, based on the “degree temporal dynamics” simple and complex actional classes various functions, expressed by grammemes (extended ILA model, focus aspect). Then new conceptualization less frequent phenomena presented. A novelty differentiation from status aspect, characterized habituali...

Selective noun or verb deficits in word production observed in some aphasic patients have helped us understand how grammatical knowledge is represented in the brain (e.g., Bi, Han, Shu, & Caramazza, 2007; Caramazza & Hillis, 1991; see reviews in Laiacona & Caramazza, 2004; Shapiro & Caramazza, 2003a). It has been shown that such patients are not a coherent group but are produced by various caus...

The main hypothesis to be investigated is that the distinction between grammatical aspect and the semantic classification of verbal predicates into eventuality types (events, processes and states) is encoded by distinct parts of verbal morphology in Slavic languages. The key empirical evidence is drawn from the influence of verbal morphology on the interpretation of certain bare plural and mass...

As the number of learners of English is constantly growing, automatic error correction of ESL learners’ writing is an increasingly active area of research. However, most research has mainly focused on errors concerning articles and prepositions even though tense/aspect errors are also important. One of the main reasons why tense/aspect error correction is difficult is that the choice of tense/a...

Suichuan County is located in the southwest border of Jiangxi Province, Ji 'an City. The local dialect Suichuan, namely Gan dialect, mainly distributed county seat Quanjiang and suburbs Yaoxia, Zhutian, Nanyuan, Yutian, Meijiang, Penzhu other towns. represented by Town Yaoxia Town. There a complete aspect appearance system dialect. includes seven kinds: initial-aspect, progressive-aspect, conti...