Conventional part-of-speech (PoS) labels such as nouns, verbs and adjectives conflate lexical-semantic roots, grammatical functions, and their combinations, making it unclear whether neural sensitivity to PoS reflects either dimension or the way they are combined. We adopted Croft’s typological framework to decompose m...
Z. Huang, Natalia Bekemeier, Alexis G. Hervais-Adelman· bioRxiv· 0 citations
During speech comprehension, the brain dynamically infers a hierarchy of increasingly abstract representations from the sensory input. An important step in the inferential hierarchy is the combination of words to form phrases and sentences. Whether this process is driven primarily by statistical patterns in the linguis...
S. Slaats, A. Hervais-Adelman· bioRxiv· 0 citations
Word classes such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives are fundamental units of language, but their neural encoding remains unclear. Here, we investigate whether word classes are processed as invariant, context-independent lexical categories or depend on sentence context during language processing. We analyse source-localiz...
