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Lexical representation explains cortical entrainment during speech comprehension
Stefan L Frank1, Jinbiao Yang2
1Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Results from a recent neuroimaging study on spoken sentence comprehension have been interpreted as evidence for cortical entrainment to hierarchical syntactic structure. We present a simple computational model that predicts the power spectra from this study, even though the model's linguistic knowledge is restricted to the lexical level, and word-level representations are not combined into higher-level units (phrases or sentences). Hence, the cortical entrainment results can also be explained from the lexical properties of the stimuli, without recourse to hierarchical syntax.
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