NEUROMORFOLOGÍA: EL MODELO DECLARATIVO-PROCESAL1 ABR 2011 – DÍA 32Neurolingüística del español

SPAN 4270

Harry Howard

Tulane University

ORGANIZACIÓN DEL CURSO

http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/SPAN4130-Neurospan/

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REPASO

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SUMMARY

is memory for habits & skills

learns rule-like relations in a context

learns quickly, from a single presentation

is not available to other mental modules (= informationally encapsulated)

is mostly unconscious (implicit)

is memory for facts & events

learns arbitrary relations

learns slowly, from many presentations

is available to other mental modules (≠ informationally encapsulated)

is mostly conscious (explicit)

Procedural memory Declarative memory

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THE MODEL

Grammar learning and computation of rule-based

procedures that govern the regularities of language, particularly those procedures related to combining items into complex structures that have precedence (sequential) and hierarchical relations

builds rule-governed structure, i.e. the sequential and hierarchical combination – “merging” or concatenation – of forms and representations into complex structures:

phonology (the combination of sounds)

inflectional and derivational morphology – at least for default “regulars” but also for irregulars that appear to be affixed

syntax (word order) compositional semantics (the

meaning of the composition of words into complex structures)

Lexicon Stores all arbitrary,

idiosyncratic word-specific knowledge; bound morphemes, irregular morphological forms, verb complements, and idioms; complex forms and abstract structures that are “regular”

Supports a superpositional associative memory, which allows for generalizations across representations. This ability to generalize could underlie some degree of productivity within the memory system

Procedural/anterior Declarative/posterior

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JERARQUÍA

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culpa -ble -dad

culpable(Adj)

culpabilidad(N)

GENERAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT BY THE CEREBRAL CORTEX

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RUTAS DUAL VS. SENCILLA

En un modelo de ruta dual algunas palabras pasan por una segmentación y

otras no, o todas las palabras pasan tanto por una

segmentación como por una analisis como unidad.

En un modelo de ruta sencilla, todas las palabras se reconocen por medio del mismo mecanismo: como palabras enteras en modelos que no hacen

una segmentación, o como morfemas sueltas en modelos que hacen

una segmentación.

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UN ARTÍCULO RECIENTE

Olla Solomyak and Alec Marantz (2010) Evidence for Early Morphological Decomposition in Visual Word Recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 22, No. 9, Pages 2042-2057.

The current experiment employs a lexical decision task with simultaneous MEG recording in an attempt to investigate the time course of linguistic processing for three categories of words.

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LOS ESTIMULOS

Free stems Affixed words whose stem (root?) is also a word on

its own: predictable < predict + able

Bound roots Affixed words whose root is not a word on its own

but does appear in other morphologically related words:

tolerable < *toler + able; *toler + ate 'Unique' bound roots

Affixed words whose root is not a word on its own and does not appear in other morphologically related words:

vulnerable < *vulner + able; *vulner + ?

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RESULTADOS

Figure 1. Average left hemisphere dSPM activation across all subjects at three time points of interest (150, 190 350 ms), shown on a representative subject's inflated cortical surface.

Positive (red) dSPM values indicate current flowing outward from the cortical surface, whereas negative (blue) values indicate current flowing inward.

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REGIONS OF INTEREST

Figure 2. Left hemisphere ROIs identified for correlational analysis, defined based on heightened activation in the isolated regions.

Left: Medial view of the inflated cortical surface, showing the M130 ROI.

Center: Ventral view of the cortex, showing the M170 ROI.

Right: Lateral view of the cortex showing the M350 ROI.

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M130 We found the left hemisphere M130 to be

sensitive to affix properties of the complex words. Both a morphological and an orthographic

measure of affix frequency exerted significant effects on M130 activity, across all three groups of words. Orthographic form features (letter string frequency,

transition probability from one string to the next), Morphological properties such as affix frequency and

the conditional probability of encountering each word given its stem.

Although this result does suggest that activity at the M130 is associated with the detection of affix properties, it appears that the relevant properties at this stage in processing may be orthographic and not morphological in nature.

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M170 We found what appear to be effects of genuine

morphological decomposition at the slightly later stage of the M170.

Left hemisphere M170 activation was significantly correlated with TPL (the transition probability from the lemma to the affix), across both free stems and bound roots (the only two categories for which this variable has a nontrivial definition).

There was also a significant effect of morphological affix frequency, but not orthographic affix frequency, on the M170 across all three classes of words.

Although these two measures are highly correlated with one another and both were found to exert roughly the same influence on the M130, their divergence at the M170 was substantial—there was a significant negative correlation between M170 activity and morphological affix frequency, whereas the correlation with orthographic affix frequency did not even near significance.

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NEUROMORFOLOGÍA

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M350

Within 200 msec of visual word presentation, after the activity from posterior regions described above is well underway, activation also begins in inferior frontal regions, as well as middle and superior temporal regions.

The MEG literature has suggested that the M350 from these middle and superior temporal regions shows hallmarks of being an index of lexical access—contact with the mental lexicon that connects orthographic, phonological, and semantic representations along with other information about words.

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P9

The article for this week is posted in the Documents folder on Blackboard as Solomyak09-MEG&Morpho.pdf.

For P9, answer this question: Does it support or not the declarative/procedural model of language that we have discussed? Explain the reasoning you used to come to this conclusion. Hopefully, you can do so in less than a page.

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SINTAXISHOET §4

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PRESENTACIÓN

¿Tienen estas oraciones lo mismo? La columna sostiene la casa. La casa sostiene la columna.

¿Por qué? Tienen las mismísimas palabras. Porque el orden es diferente.

¿Son válidas todos los ordenes posibles? Casa la sostiene columna la.

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DIAGRAMAS DE ÁRBOL

¿Qué significa "Necesitamos más alumnos y profesores inteligentes"? [alumnos y profesores] inteligentes alumnos y [profesores inteligentes]

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[alumnos y profesores] inteligentesN N A

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alumnos y [profesores inteligentes]N N A

SN SN

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RECURSIVIDAD

¿Cuál es la oración más larga del español? Empecemos con ésta:

Juan come manzanas. Juan come manzanas y peras. Juan come manzanas, peras y naranjas. Juan come manzanas, peras, naranjas y uvas. ??

La coordinación con 'y' es recursiva: se puede coordinar un sintagma ya coordinada.

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CRITERIOS PARA DETERMINAR LA ESTRUCTURA

Mi hermano vio a María con un telescopio. Creo que esta oración se compone de estas

unidades: [mi hermano] vio [la luna] [con [un telescopio]]

Pero, ¿cómo puedo estar seguro?

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LA PRONOMINALIZACIÓN

[mi hermano] vio [la luna] [con [un telescopio]]

[él] vio [la luna] [con [un telescopio]] *[mi él] vio [la luna] [con [un telescopio]] ???[mi hermano] vio [la luna] [con [él]] [mi hermano] vio [la luna] [con [eso]] *[mi hermano] vio [ella] [con [un telescopio]] [mi hermano] [la] vio [con [un telescopio]] [mi hermano] vio [la luna] [así] Mi hermana lo hizo también. = [ver [la luna] [con [un telescopio]]]

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EL PRÓXIMO DÍALa sintaxis

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