Blar i Institutt for språk og litteratur på forfatter "Baggio, Giosuè"
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Are Natural Kind Terms Ambiguous?
Haukioja, Jussi Tapio; Toorman, Jeske; Baggio, Giosuè; Jylkka, Jussi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Recent experimental studies have claimed to find evidence for the view that natural kind terms such as “water” are ambiguous: that they have two extensions, one determined by superficial properties, the other by underlying ... -
The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review
Abreu, Regina; Postarnak, Svetlana; Vulchanov, Valentin Ivanov; Baggio, Giosuè; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The statistical account of language acquisition asserts that language is learned through computations on the statistical regularities present in natural languages. This type of account can predict variability in language ... -
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 ... -
Computational complexity explains neural differences in quantifier verification
Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Szymanik, Jakub; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Different classes of quantifiers provably require different verification algorithms with different complexity profiles. The algorithm for proportional quantifiers, like ‘most’, is more complex than that for nonproportional ... -
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 ... -
High-fidelity transmission of auditory symbolic material is associated with reduced right–left neuroanatomical asymmetry between primary auditory regions
Lumaca, Massimo; Bonetti, Leonardo; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè; Ravignani, Andrea; Vuust, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The intergenerational stability of auditory symbolic systems, such as music, is thought to rely on brain processes that allow the faithful transmission of complex sounds. Little is known about the functional and structural ... -
How (not) to look for meaning composition in the brain: A reassessment of current experimental paradigms
Calinescu, Lia; Ramchand, Gillian C; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)When we use language, we draw on a finite stock of lexical and functional meanings and grammatical structures to assign meanings to expressions of arbitrary complexity. According to the Principle of Compositionality, the ... -
The interplay of computational complexity and memory load during quantifier verification
Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Szymanik, Jakub; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Formal analysis of the minimal computational complexity of verification algorithms for natural language quantifiers implies that different classes of quantifiers demand the engagement of different cognitive resources for ... -
Kombinasjon i språk; En ERP-undersøkelse av unikhetshypotesen
Slungård, Staale (Master thesis, 2022)Denne masteroppgaven har som mål å finne ut hvordan hjernen prosesserer fraser med og uten kombinasjon, for slik å undersøke hypotesen fra formell lingvistikk om at det bare eksisterer en enkelt operasjon for å kombinere ...