Early and parallel processing of pragmatic and semantic information in speech acts: neurophysiological evidence

Although language is a tool for communication, most research in the neuroscience of language has focused on studying words and sentences, while little is known about the brain mechanisms of speech acts, or communicative functions, for which words and sentences are used as tools. Here the neural proc...

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Main Authors: Egorova, Natalia, Shtyrov, Yury, Pulvermüller, Friedemann
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3610085/