David Kemmerer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1497789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Kemmerer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemmerer |
| SIGNATURE | KEMMERER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9020-8996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary
Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual knowledge galvanized a new era of research undertaken by numerous fields, each with their own idiosyncratic methods and terminology. For example, “concept” has different meanings in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. As such, many fundamental constructs used to delineate…
Transmodal neural substrates of general semantic knowledge: From single words to sentences, stories, and the default mode network
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
Word Order, Action, and the Brain: A Reply to Arbib
In a recent paper in this journal, I argued that the crosslinguistic prevalence of subject–object–verb and subject–verb–object word orders reflects the sequential and hierarchical representation of action in Broca's area. Arbib (2015) discusses that paper in the context of broader computational, neuroscientific, and evolutionary issues, and presents a critique of my specific proposal. Here, I respond to his concerns and defend my original account
Body ownership and beyond: Connections between cognitive neuroscience and linguistic typology
The Cross-Linguistic Prevalence of SOV and SVO Word Orders Reflects the Sequential and Hierarchical Representation of Action in Broca's Area
Despite the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the language sciences, so far relatively little effort has been devoted to exploring potential connections between typology and neuroscience. To illustrate some of the insights that can be gained from pursuing such an integration, this paper focuses on one of the most well established and frequently cited typological generalizations, namely that in the vast majority of human languages, the basi…
Nouns and verbs in the brain: Implications of linguistic typology for cognitive neuroscience
Phonotactics and Syllable Stress: Implications for the Processing of Spoken Nonsense Words
Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotactic and metrical information on spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 examined participants' intuitions about the phonological “goodness” of nonsense words. Experiment 2 examined processing times for the same stimuli in a speeded auditory repetition task. The results of both studies…
A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Regular and Irregular Verb Morphology in English
Theories about the representation and processing of regular and irregular past tense forms of verbs in English have disagreed as to whether they should be treated as a unified phenomenon (e.g. both rule-governed, or both generated by a connectionist net), or as two distinct types of linguistic entities (e.g. regulars formed by rules of the grammar, irregulars stored in lexical memory). In this article we present data from a positron emission tomo…
Phonotactics and Syllable Stress: Implications for the Processing of Spoken Nonsense Words
Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotactic and metrical information on spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 examined participants' intuitions about the phonological “goodness” of nonsense words. Experiment 2 examined processing times for the same stimuli in a speeded auditory repetition task. The results of both studies…
A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Regular and Irregular Verb Morphology in English
Theories about the representation and processing of regular and irregular past tense forms of verbs in English have disagreed as to whether they should be treated as a unified phenomenon (e.g. both rule-governed, or both generated by a connectionist net), or as two distinct types of linguistic entities (e.g. regulars formed by rules of the grammar, irregulars stored in lexical memory). In this article we present data from a positron emission tomo…
Nouns and verbs in the brain: Implications of linguistic typology for cognitive neuroscience
The Cross-Linguistic Prevalence of SOV and SVO Word Orders Reflects the Sequential and Hierarchical Representation of Action in Broca's Area
Despite the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the language sciences, so far relatively little effort has been devoted to exploring potential connections between typology and neuroscience. To illustrate some of the insights that can be gained from pursuing such an integration, this paper focuses on one of the most well established and frequently cited typological generalizations, namely that in the vast majority of human languages, the basi…
A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Regular and Irregular Verb Morphology in English
Theories about the representation and processing of regular and irregular past tense forms of verbs in English have disagreed as to whether they should be treated as a unified phenomenon (e.g. both rule-governed, or both generated by a connectionist net), or as two distinct types of linguistic entities (e.g. regulars formed by rules of the grammar, irregulars stored in lexical memory). In this article we present data from a positron emission tomo…
Phonotactics and Syllable Stress: Implications for the Processing of Spoken Nonsense Words
Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotactic and metrical information on spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 examined participants' intuitions about the phonological “goodness” of nonsense words. Experiment 2 examined processing times for the same stimuli in a speeded auditory repetition task. The results of both studies…
Nouns and verbs in the brain: Implications of linguistic typology for cognitive neuroscience
The Cross-Linguistic Prevalence of SOV and SVO Word Orders Reflects the Sequential and Hierarchical Representation of Action in Broca's Area
Despite the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the language sciences, so far relatively little effort has been devoted to exploring potential connections between typology and neuroscience. To illustrate some of the insights that can be gained from pursuing such an integration, this paper focuses on one of the most well established and frequently cited typological generalizations, namely that in the vast majority of human languages, the basi…
Body ownership and beyond: Connections between cognitive neuroscience and linguistic typology
Word Order, Action, and the Brain: A Reply to Arbib
In a recent paper in this journal, I argued that the crosslinguistic prevalence of subject–object–verb and subject–verb–object word orders reflects the sequential and hierarchical representation of action in Broca's area. Arbib (2015) discusses that paper in the context of broader computational, neuroscientific, and evolutionary issues, and presents a critique of my specific proposal. Here, I respond to his concerns and defend my original account
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
Transmodal neural substrates of general semantic knowledge: From single words to sentences, stories, and the default mode network
What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary
Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual knowledge galvanized a new era of research undertaken by numerous fields, each with their own idiosyncratic methods and terminology. For example, “concept” has different meanings in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. As such, many fundamental constructs used to delineate…
Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (5 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)