An NYU team uses machine learning to analyze neural activity data and uncover how speech is produced. In a recent paper ...

Syntax on the brain: Researchers map how we build sentences, word by word. ... Building sentence structure may be language-specific, brain activity study finds. Jan 21, 2025.

Both normals and amnesics were storing sentence structure as procedural memory. Now, that, it seems to me, is downright surprising. Syntax involves abstract, relational knowledge.

The following topics are covered in the course; phonetics (sounds/sound inventory of a language), phonology (how we understand and organize the sounds and patterns), morphology (word structure, ...

To investigate how people build sentence structure in Dutch, ... Language-specific neural dynamics extend syntax into the time domain, PLOS Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002968.

Talk to most people about grammar and you’re likely to hear a lot about little issues that are, essentially, language trivia — matters like when to use “whom,” how to use “between” and ...

Thothathiri and her colleagues asked 4- and 5-year-olds who had not yet developed fluent reading skills to listen to a series of active and passively constructed sentences (“the boy kicked the ...