Semantic satiation refers to the observation that repeated exposure to a meaningful item can temporarily reduce access to its meaning. While this effect has been studied mainly with spoken and written words, our short-term collaboration as part of …
The capacity for language enables humans to flexibly link meaning to sound or sign by means of grammar. Significantly, the computations underlying this ability appear to be fundamentally abstract and therefore potentially independent of the modality …
Introduction Broca’s region is a key region involved in language processing and has also been reported in experiments on action processing. We have previously mapped areas 44 and 45 in histological sections of ten human brains using an …
In this talk we provide an update about the work carried out as part of our project in the past years. We will report results from our empirical studies and discuss recent and upcoming publications.
An influential school of thought in theoretical linguistics (Adger, 2021; Chomsky, 1995; Chomsky et al., 2023) stipulates that the core computational machinery for language—the ability to hierarchically combine lexical items—is …
The capacity for language enables humans to flexibly link meaning to sound or sign by means of grammar. Significantly, the computations underlying this ability appear to be fundamentally abstract and therefore at least to an extent independent of the …
Introduction: Language processing in the adult neurotypical brain is subserved by several white-matter pathways which connect inferior frontal, temporal, and parietal language-relevant cortical regions. Here, we used diffusion-weighted MRI to compare …
Background. Many of the world’s spoken and sign languages mark the difference between the two major lexical categories noun and verb (Rijkhoff, 2007; Haspelmath, 2023). In the case of German Sign Language (DGS), different morphophonological …
Background. Many of the world’s spoken and sign languages mark the difference between the two major lexical categories noun and verb (Abner et al., 2019). In the case of German Sign Language (DGS), different morphophonological properties for nouns …
In der modernen Linguistik herrscht weitestgehend Einigkeit darüber, dass alle Sprachen der Welt zumindest über Kategorien Anlog zu Nomen und Verben verfügen. Inwiefern diese beiden Kategorien in unterschiedlichen Sprachen morphologisch …