Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

THE recent article concerning computer simulation 1 is refuted by its first sentence. As the first condition for an acceptable simulation of the way in which human beings recognize syntactic structure ...

It's possible to tag sentence structures universally across languages to real world events via first order logic. Grammatical labels differ from language to language (e.g. perfect/perfective/aorist), ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

Conceptually (see also The Fundamental Relations of Syntax and Conceptual Structure) the head of each sentence is a predicate. The predicate combined with its arguments to form a basic eventuality.

Find out more about how linguists research Syntax through looking at some example research. Even if animals were able to do this, we would encounter another problem as to how to interpret these new ...