articlePsychological ReviewJan 1, 2006Closed access

The extended argument dependency model: A neurocognitive approach to sentence comprehension across languages.

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences · Max Planck Society · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Real-time language comprehension is a principal cognitive ability and thereby relates to central properties of the human cognitive architecture. Yet how do the presumably universal cognitive and neural substrates of language processing relate to the astounding diversity of human languages (over 5,000)? The authors present a neurocognitive model of online comprehension, the extended argument dependency model (eADM), that accounts for cross-linguistic unity and diversity in the processing of core constituents (verbs and arguments). The eADM postulates that core constituent processing proceeds in three hierarchically organized phases: (1) constituent structure building without relational interpretation, (2)…

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  • Sentence processing
  • Argument (complex analysis)
  • Comprehension
  • Animacy
  • Sentence
  • Cognitive architecture
  • Cognition
  • Computer science
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