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Brennan, J. R., & Martin, A. E. (2019). Delta-gamma phase-locking indexes composition of predicates. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2019), San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Brennan, J. R., Martin, A. E., Dunagan, D., Meyer, L., & Hale, J. (2019). Resolving dependencies during naturalistic listening. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
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Coopmans, C. W., Martin, A. E., De Hoop, H., & Hagoort, P. (2019). The interpretation of noun phrases and their structure: Views from constituency vs. dependency grammars. Talk presented at the workshop 'Doing experiments with theoretical linguistics'. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2019-04-04.
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Coopmans, C. W., Martin, A. E., De Hoop, H., & Hagoort, P. (2019). The interpretation of noun phrases and their structure: Views from constituency vs. dependency grammars. Poster presented at Crossing the Boundaries: Language in Interaction Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Cutter, M. G., Martin, A. E., & Sturt, P. (2019). Do readers skip predictable words more than unpredictable words in syntactically illegal positions: An eye-tracking study. Talk presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Summer Meeting. Bournemouth, UK. 2019-07-10 - 2019-07-12.
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Cutter, M. G., Martin, A. E., & Sturt, P. (2019). Do readers skip predictable words more than unpredictable words in syntactically illegal positions: An eye-tracking study. Talk presented at the 20th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2019). Alicante, Spain. 2019-08-18 - 2019-08-22.
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Cutter, M. G., Martin, A. E., & Sturt, P. (2019). Perceptual information from word n+2 does not affect the skipping of word n+1. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO, USA.
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Kaufeld, G., Bosker, H. R., Alday, P. M., Meyer, A. S., & Martin, A. E. (2019). A timescale-specific hierarchy in cortical oscillations during spoken language comprehension. Poster presented at Language and Music in Cognition: Integrated Approaches to Cognitive Systems (Spring School 2019), Cologne, Germany.
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Kaufeld, G., Bosker, H. R., Alday, P. M., Meyer, A. S., & Martin, A. E. (2019). Structure and meaning entrain neural oscillations: A timescale-specific hierarchy. Poster presented at the 26th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2019), San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Martin, A. E. (2019). Computing (de)compositional linguistic representations within the constraints of neurophysiology. Talk presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, USA. 2019-01-17.
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Martin, A. E. (2019). Computing structure in brains and machines. Talk presented at the Foundations of Cognitive Lectures Series, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2019-06-07.
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Martin, A. E. (2019). Memory, parsing, and the computational architecture of the language system: The view from ellipsis. Talk presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, USA. 2019-01-18.
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Martin, A. E. (2019). On neural systems, oscillations, and compositionality. Talk presented at the Neural Dynamics Forum, University of Bristol. Bristol, UK. 2019-05-10.
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Sturt, P., Cutter, M. G., & Martin, A. E. (2019). Integrating syntactic expectations with para-foveal visual information during reading. Talk presented at the 20th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2019). Alicante, Spain. 2019-08-18 - 2019-08-22.
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Nieuwland, M. S., Martin, A. E., & Carreiras, M. (2010). An event-related FMRI study on case and number agreement processing in native and proficient nonnative speakers of Basque. Poster presented at the Workshop on Neurobilingualism, Donostia, Spain.
Abstract
Differences in native and nonnative sentence processing may surface most clearly around parameters that are not shared between L1 and L2. We investigated whether differences between Spanish-Basque bilinguals exist in processing related to the particular constraints of the ergative-absolutive case system of Basque, which is not present in Spanish, but not in processing related to number agreement which occurs in both languages. In an event-related FMRI experiment, we tested this hypothesis by examining the cortical networks recruited for reading in Spanish-Basque bilinguals. Highly proficient nonnative and native speakers of Basque read sentences containing violations of ergative case assignment or violations of number agreement as well as correct sentences (e.g., “Gizonak lehiatilan jaso ditu sarrerek/sarrera/sarrerak goizean”, respectively, approximate translation: “The man at the box office has received the tickets-erg/ticket/tickets in the morning”) while performing an acceptability judgment task. Preliminary results (6 nonnative and 16 native speakers) showed that ergative case violations and number violations similarly elicited activation increases compared to correct sentences in the right inferior parietal lobule and the precuneus while number violations elicited additional activation increases in middle and inferior frontal cortex, consistent with reports for morphosyntactic agreement errors. Compared to native speakers, nonnative speakers engaged the medial prefrontal cortex more strongly while processing ergative case violations and number violations, suggesting that they engaged additional cognitive resources to arrive at the same behavioral outcome. These latter effects, however, did not seem to differ between the ergative case and number violations. Thus, our preliminary results support the hypothesis that while morphosyntactic processing is quantitatively different in the two groups, native and nonnative speakers do not show qualitatively different responses when processing morphosyntactic features that are specific of the L2.
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