The neural architecture of grammar / Stephen E. Nadeau.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A comprehensive, neurally based theory of language function that draws on principles of neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and parallel distributed processing."--Provided by publisher.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Parallel Distributed Processing Model of Language: Phonologic, Semantic, and Semantic-Phonologic (Lexical) Processing -- Concept Representations -- Acoustic-Articulatory Motor Pattern Associator Network -- Lexicons -- Representation of Knowledge in Auto-Associator and Pattern Associator Networks: Attractor Basins, Attractor Trenches, and Quasi-Regular Domains -- Semantic-Phonologic (Lexical) and Phonologic Impairment in Aphasias -- Phonologic Paraphasic Errors -- Factors Influencing Phonologic and Lexical Errors in Internally Generated Aphasic Language -- 3. Grammar: The Model -- Semantic Contributions to Syntax -- Adjectives -- Verbs -- Semantic Instantiation of Verbs -- Verb Thematic, Implementational, and Flavor Representations -- Frontal -- Postcentral: Verb Flavor -- Relations between Nouns and Verbs -- Abstract Nouns and Verbs -- Lexical Instantiation of Verbs: The Relationship between Modified Concept Representations and Morphologic and Phonologic Sequence Representations -- Prepositions -- Locative -- Obligatory -- Personal Pronouns -- Sequence: The Basis of Syntax -- Phrase Structure Rules, Grammatic Morphology, and the Competition Model -- Phrase Structure Rules -- Grammatic Morphology -- Competition Model -- Syntax: Sequence at the Sentence Level -- Recursion -- Grammar: A Synthesis -- 4. Disorders of Grammar in Aphasia -- Grammaticality Judgment and the Issue of Loss of Knowledge versus Loss of Access to Knowledge -- Syntax -- Deficits in Verb Production in Broca's Aphasia -- Potential Mechanisms -- Semantic-Conceptual -- Lexical -- Grammatic -- Distributed Representations of Verb Semantics -- Thematic and Flavor (Manner-Path) Representations of Verbs -- Concreteness Effects -- "Heavy" versus "Light" Verbs -- Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs -- Psychological Verbs -- Verb Naming Errors as a Reflection of the Nature of Neural Networks Supporting Verb Meaning -- Verb Representations: A Summary -- Syntax: Phrase Structure Rules -- Grammatic Morphology -- Cross-Linguistic Aphasia Studies -- Support for the Competition Model -- Sparing of Grammatic Morphology in Production of Richly Inflected Languages: Implications for Neuroanatomy of Grammar -- Support for the Competition Model from Studies of Language Comprehension -- Hierarchy of Morphologic Sequence Knowledge -- Grammatic Morphology -- Special Cases -- Personal Pronouns -- Auxiliary Verbs -- Locative Prepositions -- Obligatory Prepositions -- Verb Past Tense Formation -- Single-Route Connectionist Model -- Hybrid Associative Symbolic Model -- Performance by Normal Subjects -- Discrepant Results -- Other Forms -- Tense versus Agreement -- Present Tense versus Past Tense -- Competition Model and a Return to Syntax -- Disorders of Comprehension -- 5. Conclusion -- Future Research Directions.

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