Browsing Publications by Subject "Linguistics"

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    • The Compositional Nature of Event Representations in the Human Brain 

      Barbu, Andrei; Narayanaswamy, Siddharth; Xiong, Caiming; Corso, Jason J.; Fellbaum, Christiane D.; e.a. (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-07-14)
      How does the human brain represent simple compositions of constituents: actors, verbs, objects, directions, and locations? Subjects viewed videos during neuroimaging (fMRI) sessions from which sentential descriptions of ...

    • Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage 

      Berzak, Yevgeni; Reichart, Roi; Katz, Boris (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-04-25)
      Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language. In this work we provide empirical evidence for ...