The syntactic and semantic processing of mass and count nouns: an ERP study.

The present study addressed the question of whether count and mass nouns are differentially processed in the brain. In two different ERP (Event-Related Potentials) tasks we explored the semantic and syntactic levels of such distinction. Mass and count nouns typically differ in concreteness, hence th...

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Main Authors: Valentina Chiarelli, Radouane El Yagoubi, Sara Mondini, Patrizia Bisiacchi, Carlo Semenza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3187832?pdf=render