LING 390 Lecture Notes - Temporal Lobe, Semantic Similarity, Lexical Semantics

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 390
• Professor: Andrea Nicole Santi Isabelle Deschamps

Document Summary

Basically a longer version of the midterm. N400 might definitely operates at the lexical level. Complement coercion doesn"t have to do it (read is the least common, but began still takes longer) Maybe it"s began + np, but no, it"s only when you have to fill in something different, not when it"s the verb itself. Pairs of sentences: a context sentence and a target sentence. They predict that if it"s ambiguity that"s the problem, then one and three should be the same. One is still greater than three, and two is greater than four. Thus it can"t simply be the ambiguity. Coerced, anomalous, control -> judge whether the sentence makes sense. Interested in the effect of article (the np that follows the verb) If there"s an aspect that has to do with semantic composition, then coerced control = anomalous control.