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Alday, P. M., & Martin, A. E. (2017). Decoding linguistic structure building in the time-frequency domain. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2017), San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Alday, P. M., & Martin, A. E. (2017). Decoding linguistic structure building in the time-frequency domain. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Alday, P. M., & Martin, A. E. (2017). Stress-timing via oscillatory phase-locking in naturalistic language. Poster presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2017), Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Martin, A. E. (2017). Brain Rhythms and Cortical Computation (BryCoCo) [Keynote lecture]. Talk presented at the University Geneva. Geneva, Switzerland. 2017-10.
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Martin, A. E., & Doumas, L. A. A. (2017). A mechanism for the cortical computation of hierarchical linguistic structure. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Martin, A. E., & Doumas, L. A. A. (2017). A mechanism for the cortical computation of hierarchical linguistic structure. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2017), San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Martin, A. E., & Doumas, L. A. A. (2017). A mechanism for the cortical computation of hierarchical linguistic structure. Talk presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2017) Data Blitz Session. San Francisco, CA, USA. 2017-03-25 - 2017-03-28.
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Martin, A. E. (2017). Learning, representing, and inferring a symbolic system from neural representations distributed across time and frequency. Talk presented at the Workshop Key Questions and New Methods in the Language Sciences. Berg en Dal, The Netherlands. 2017-06-14 - 2017-06-17.
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Martin, A. E. (2017). Linking linguistic and cortical computation via hierarchy and time. Talk presented at the Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany. 2017-11-15.
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Martin, A. E. (2017). Linking linguistic and cortical computation via hierarchy and time. Talk presented at the Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2017-10-26.
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Martin, A. E. (2017). Linking linguistic and cortical computation via hierarchy and time [Keynote lecture]. Talk presented at the Workshop "The Neural Oscillations of Speech and Language Processing". Berlin, Germany. 2017-05-29.
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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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