MEG evidence for left temporal and orbitofrontal involvement in breaking down inflected words and putting the pieces back together.

A major puzzle in the visual word recognition literature is how the human brain deals with complex words (e.g., presuppose).

How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla.

This paper presents a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on reading in Bangla, an east Indo-Aryan language predominantly written in an abugida script. The study aims to uncover how visual stimuli are processed and mapped onto abstract linguistic representations in the brain. Specifically, we investigate the neural responses that correspond to word length in Bangla, a language with a unique orthography that introduces multiple ways to measure word length.

Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla.

Research on filler-gap dependencies has revealed that there are constraints on possible gap sites, and that real-time sentence processing is sensitive to these constraints. This work has shown that comprehenders have preferences for potential gap sites, and immediately detect when these preferences are not met. However, neither the mechanisms that select preferred gap sites nor the mechanisms used to detect whether these preferences are met are well-understood.

Linguistic representations and memory architectures: The devil is in the details.

Attempts to explain linguistic phenomena as consequences of memory constraints require detailed specification of linguistic representations and memory architectures alike. We discuss examples of supposed locality biases in language comprehension and production, and their link to memory constraints. Findings do not generally favor Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) approach.