...I Made Sena Darmasetiyawan; Ben Ambridge; Dermot Lynott Semantics-based approaches to syntax hold that the basic units of language are constructions: form-meaning pairings that have meanings in and of themselves. The aim of the present study was to test this claim using a previously-unstudied...

... are credited. verb semantics passive priming syntax There can hardly be a question that is more central to the cognitive sciences than that of how language – and in particular grammatical structure – is represented in the brain. To frame the question in more concrete terms, consider...

... developmental and neurophysiological perspectives. We discuss three major aspects: The extent of the analogy between language and action; the necessity to extend research on the yet largely neglected aspect of action syntax; the positive contribution of a developmental approach to this topic. We elaborate...