Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Our brain omits grammatical elements when it has limited resources

(University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Humanities) A study of the use of pronouns by French speakers with agrammatic aphasia shows that grammatical pronouns are significantly more impaired in speech than lexical ones. The findings support a new theory of grammar which suggests that grammatical elements contain secondary information that speakers with limited cognitive resources can omit from their speech and still make sense.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2xzlske

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