Artificial grammar learning is a popular paradigm to study syntactic ability in nonhuman animals.
In fact, Rawls (Rawls 1971) at one point suggested that arriving at the principles that match our moral judgments in reflective equilibrium might reveal our "moral grammar" in a way that is analogous to uncovering the grammar that underlies our syntactic ability as native speakers of a language to make judgments about grammatical form.
Most tissue bank databases which contain clinical data generally lack the ability to exchange information in a common format (syntactic interoperability), the ability to understand and use the information once it is received by other systems (semantic interoperability).
Syntactic competence, especially the ability to use a wide range of sophisticated grammatical expressions, represents an important aspect of communicative acumen.
Syntactic skills represent the ability to recognize and use the grammatical structures in a language (Gombert, 1992, p. 32).
Generalization should result in increased practice and ability across syntactic structures that share similar (or even interchangeable) pragmatic import, such as the syntactic structures of dative verbs.
The patients do not show comparable effects of dominance, since their syntactic deficits compromise their ability to conduct the syntactic computations that result in strong preferences for one syntactic interpretation over another.
First, we found that patients' ability to process syntactic information appropriately was correlated with activity in left inferior frontal gyrus.
Thus, we can differentiate between speed of responding and the ability to develop syntactic and semantic sentential representations.
For example, the ability to complete syntactic grooming chains is impaired in several types of mutant mouse, caused by either a knockout of D1 dopamine receptors [ 41], or by a Weaver gene mutation that alters the nigrostriatal dopamine system [ 65, 66].
