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Sep 2026
The Neural Basis of Hierarchical Structure Building during Phrase Processing
Human language comprehension requires transforming linear word sequences into hierarchical structure. Using Mandarin as a case study, we investigated how the brain builds phrase-level structure from two sequentially presented words. Participants processed the same phrases in two tasks emphasizing either the semantic...
Fei-Zhen Cao, M. Xiang, Shu-Guang Yang et al.
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