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- A surge of studies has started focusing on simple two-word constructions to explore the core elements of how language is structured and understood.
- The research reveals insights into the cognitive processes and brain areas, particularly Broca's area, involved in combining these basic units into more complex syntactic forms.
- Four main findings highlight that this combinatory process is rule-based, automatic, relies on brain areas for syntactic features, and emphasizes a bottom-up approach over top-down prediction.
Article Abstract
In recent years a growing number of studies on syntactic processing has employed basic two-word constructions (e.g., "the tree") to characterize the fundamental aspects of linguistic composition. This large body of evidence allows, for the first time, to closely examine which cognitive processes and neural substrates support the combination of two syntactic units into a more complex one, mirroring the nature of combinatory operations described in theoretical linguistics. The present review comprehensively examines behavioral, neuroimaging and neurostimulation studies investigating basic syntactic composition, covering more than forty years of psycho- and neuro-linguistic research. Across several paradigms, four key features of syntactic composition have emerged: (1) the rule-based and (2) automatic nature of the combinatorial process, (3) a central role of Broca's area and the posterior temporal lobe in representing and combining syntactic features, and (4) the reliance on efficient bottom-up integration rather than top-down prediction.
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