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27 - Neuroimaging

from Part IV - Experimental Syntax beyond Acceptability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2021

Grant Goodall
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Neuroimaging methods are of interest to those in search of non-traditional methods, and hopefully new insights, for the study of syntax. To the extent that activation in a “syntax area” of the brain can be used to discriminate among syntactic theories, we must have good confidence in the localization of syntax to begin with. Therefore what seem like separate interests – the linguist’s interest in using neuroimaging experiments to understand language, and the neuroscientist’s interest in spatial localization of language – are in fact inseparable. Section 27.2 introduces the reader to the various neuroimaging methods currently available and provides a crash course in the cortical neuroanatomy relevant to language. Section 27.3 reviews attempts to localize syntax in the brain through the use of neuroimaging methods. Section 27.4 discusses attempts to use neuroimaging data to adjudicate linguistic questions: the adequacy of syntactic theories, parsing models, and particular structural analyses.

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  • Neuroimaging
  • Edited by Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax
  • Online publication: 16 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569620.028
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  • Neuroimaging
  • Edited by Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax
  • Online publication: 16 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569620.028
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  • Neuroimaging
  • Edited by Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax
  • Online publication: 16 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569620.028
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