TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas T1 - On the semantics of scope in agrammatism Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas T1 - Variables and events in the syntax of agrammatic speech Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas A1 - Beim Graben, Peter A1 - Schlesewsky, Matthias T1 - Measuring entropy during language processing Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas A1 - Beim Graben, Peter A1 - Schlesewsky, Matthias T1 - Cortical Dynamics of Language Processes Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas A1 - Schlesewsky, Matthias A1 - Beim Graben, Peter T1 - Cylinder Entropies and Case resolution Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas T1 - Measuring the dynamics of language processes Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beim Graben, Peter A1 - Saddy, Douglas A1 - Schlesewsky, Matthias A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - Symbolic dynamics of event-related brain potentials Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Frisch, Stefan A1 - Saddy, Douglas A1 - Friederici, A. D. T1 - Cutting a long story (too) short Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas A1 - Uriagereka, J. T1 - Measuring language N2 - The study of language, its processing and its bearing on human cortical processes are all extensive domains of investigation in their own right. In this overview tutorial we limit ourselves to a sample of core illustrative issues. Our central aim is to demonstrate how complexity within the language faculty arises from two a priori distinct sources: the computational complexity inherent in the grammar of the language system itself and the procedural complexity resulting from marshalling processing resources in order to produce or interpret utterances that correspond to the grammar. Distinguishing between these two sources of complexity is a current goal in investigations of the human language faculty. The combination of quantitative approaches with newer qualitative approaches to the analysis of electro-cortical behaviour associated with carefully controlled language paradigms represents a new approach to clarifying this central issue Y1 - 2004 SN - 0218-1274 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saddy, Douglas A1 - Drenhaus, Heiner A1 - Frisch, Stefan T1 - Processing polarity items : Contrastive licensing costs N2 - We describe an experiment that investigated the failure to license polarity items in German using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). The results reveal distinct processing reflexes associated with failure to license positive polarity items in comparison to failure to license negative polarity items. Failure to license both negative and positive polarity items elicited an N400 component reflecting semantic integration cost. Failure to license positive polarity items, however, also elicited a P600 component. The additional P600 in the positive polarity violations may reflect higher processing complexity associated with a negative operator. This difference between the two types of violation suggests that the processing of negative and positive polarity items does not involve identical mechanisms. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved Y1 - 2004 SN - 0093-934X ER -