Inflectional zero morphology – linguistic myth or neurocognitive reality?

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Maria Alekseeva from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy have published the research: Inflectional zero morphology - Linguistic myth or neurocognitive reality?, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The study showed a significant activation of Broca`s area in zero-inflected conditions suggesting morphological processing of zero inflection morphemes and thus hinting at the existence of their neural representations.
  • future: Future research will be able to verify the existence of neurobiological and behavioral signatures of accessing such non-overt abstract morphemes.

SUMMARY

    The Universal Grammar (UG; Chomsky, 1965) proposed both . . .

     

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