Diego Fernandez-Duque

List of John Benjamins publications for which Diego Fernandez-Duque plays a role.

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Fernandez-Duque, Diego 2009 Cognitive and neural underpinnings of syntactic complexity Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 433–460 | Article
Based on a review of the neuroimaging literature, I argue that the resources allocated for processing syntactically complex sentences (i.e., object-extracted relative clauses) are domain-general. Overlapping brain areas are activated by OR clauses and by effortful executive tasks, such as storing… read more