Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Baggio, Giosuè"
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Boon or burden? The role of compositional meaning in figurative language processing and acquisition
Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Milburn, Evelyn Arko; Vulchanov, Valentin; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We critically address current theories of figurative language, focusing on the role of literal or compositional meaning in the interpretation of non-literal expressions, including idioms and metaphors. Specifically, we ... -
Brain potentials predict learning, transmission and modification of an artificial symbolic system
Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)It has recently been argued that symbolic systems evolve while they are being transmitted across generations of learners, gradually adapting to the relevant brain structures and processes. In the context of this hypothesis, ... -
Compositionality in a parallel architecture for language processing
Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for decades, and it is increasingly prominent in many other areas of cognitive science. Its status, however, remains contentious. Here, I reassess ... -
Cultural transmission and evolution of melodic structures in multi-generational signaling games
Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)It has been proposed that languages evolve by adapting to the perceptual and cognitive constraints of the human brain, developing, in the course of cultural transmission, structural regularities that maximize or optimize ... -
Developmental constraints on learning artificial grammars with fixed, flexible and free word order
Nowak, Iga; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Human learning, although highly flexible and efficient, is constrained in ways that facilitate or impede the acquisition of certain systems of information. Some such constraints, active during infancy and childhood, have ... -
Electrophysiological Correlates of Adjective-Noun Combinations: On-line Effects of Composition and Privativity
Hafstad, Camilla (Master thesis, 2021)The ability to combine the meanings of individual words into complex semantic representations is a defining trait of human linguistic competence. Despite its significance, little is known about the neurocognitive mechanisms ... -
Embedding (im)plausible clauses in propositional attitude contexts: Modulatory effects on the N400 and late components
Calinescu, Lia; Giskes, Anna; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)How do comprehenders track dependencies between the plausibility of embedded clauses and of the sentences in which they occur? We investigated processing of Norwegian propositional attitude sentences with plausible or ... -
Emojis and Meaning: An Experimental Study of the Semantics of Sentence-Final Face Emojis
Bjertnes, Hanna Valø (Master thesis, 2022)Det blir stadig tydeligere at samspillet mellom emojier, de små smilefjesene som kjennetegner dagens digitale kommunikasjon, og teksten de opptrer med er mer komplekst en tidligere antatt. Hensikten med dette prosjektet ... -
Formal semantics in the neurology clinic: Atypical understanding of aspectual coercion in ALS patients
Baggio, Giosuè; Granello, Giulia; Verriello, Lorenzo; Roberto, Eleopra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of the motor system with subtle adverse effects on cognition. It is still unclear whether ALS also affects language and semantics, and if so, what aspects ... -
From random to regular: Neural constraints on the emergence of isochronous rhythm during cultural transmission
Lumaca, Massimo; Haumann, Niels Trusbak; Vuust, Peter; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)A core design feature of human communication systems and expressive behaviours is their temporal organization. The cultural evolutionary origins of this feature remain unclear. Here, we test the hypothesis that regularities ... -
Functional connectivity in human auditory networks and the origins of variation in the transmission of musical systems
Lumaca, Massimo; Kleber, Boris; Brattico, Elvira; Vuust, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Music producers, whether original composers or performers, vary in their ability to acquire and faithfully transmit music. This form of variation may serve as a mechanism for the emergence of new traits in musical systems. ... -
Gamma oscillations as a neural signature of shifting times in narrative language
Brederoo, Sanne; Bos, Laura Simone; Dragoy, Olga; Bastiaanse, Roelien; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-13)Verbs and other temporal expressions allow speakers to specify the location of events in time, as well as to move back and forth in time, shifting in a narrative between past, present and future. The referential flexibility ... -
Gesture and Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder A Study of Pointing Patterns and Language Predictors in Typical and Atypical Development
Cabo, Sara Ramos (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:91, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Gestures are not only the most powerful communicative device for prelinguistic infants, they can also predict when they will produce their first words. Whether this predictive relation exists in children with Autism Spectrum ... -
Kripkeans of the world, unite!
Islam, Farjana; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper revisits a study by Machery et al. (2004), suggesting that, in experimental versions of Kripke’s (1980) fictional cases on the use of proper names, Westerners are more likely than East Asian participants to show ... -
Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing
Morgan, Elena Usai; Van der Meer, Audrey; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Blasi, Damián; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)According to traditional linguistic theories, the construction of complex meanings relies firmly on syntactic structure-building operations. Recently, however, new models have been proposed in which semantics is viewed as ... -
Music Evolution in the Laboratory: Cultural Transmission Meets Neurophysiology
Lumaca, Massimo; Ravignani, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the biological and cultural evolution of music, and specifically in the role played by perceptual and cognitive factors in shaping core features of musical systems, such ... -
Neural and behavioural effects of typicality, denotation and composition in an adjective–noun combination task
Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Formal semantics states that the meanings of phrases are composed from the meanings of constituent parts and syntax. Little is known about how composition is neurally implemented. We studied ERP and behavioural responses ... -
“Speaker reactions to grammatical errors as a result from cross linguistic influence”
Løvlie, Jørgen Aamot (Master thesis, 2022)Denne studien utforsker sensitivitet for et utvalg av grammatiske feil i engelsk språk. Utvalget av grammatiske feil undersøkt i studien er forankret i «cross linguistic influence/transfer» teori og kan forutses av avstanden ... -
The Efficacy of Educational Apps in Second Language Learning
Tangen, Mia (Master thesis, 2021)Målet med denne oversiktsartikkelen er å undersøke effektiviteten av bruken av apper i andrespråkslæring, spesielt engelsk som andrespråk. Teoretisk bakgrunn om hvordan barn lærer, og nøyaktig hvordan de lærer et andrespråk ... -
The Processing of Grammar Violations in Minimal Phrase Structures: An ERP Study
Kibsgaard, Martine Karin Marie (Master thesis, 2021)There is still a gap in our knowledge about how the brain composes form and meaning in language, but we do know that the ability to compose individual syntactic units into complex utterances is uniquely human. Manipulating ...