A new neuroimaging study has found that speakers of Dutch build sentence structure in a different way compared to English speakers. While English relies on a 'wait-and-see' approach, Dutch speakers utilize a predictive strategy to anticipate upcoming words and grammatical structures.
Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to English, sentence processing in Dutch was based on a strategy for predicting what comes next rather than a 'wait-and-see' approach, showing that strategies may differ across languages.
"To find out whether speakers of different languages build grammatical structure in the same way, it is important to look at languages that differ from English in such interesting respects," says first author Cas Coopmans."Findings based on English may not generalise to languages that have different grammatical properties, such as Dutch.
While speakers of English seem to adopt a 'wait-and-see' approach, speakers of Dutch are more likely to build sentences in a predictive manner. This means that speakers of different languages differ in how they build grammatical structure during language comprehension. Many linguists have proposed that languages spoken by numerous non-native speakers tend to have simpler grammars. A new study challenges this claim. By analyzing a global sample of 1,314 languages, ...
LANGUAGE GRAMMAR NEUROIMAGING SENTENCE PROCESSING PREDICTION
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