Leah Rice
Leah’s research involves linking current syntactic theory with the cognitive neuroscience of language. Current studies are probing the processing units during language comprehension and testing whether sentential processing aligns with the predictions of the Minimalist Program proposed by Noam Chomsky. Specifically, behavioral studies have been finding processing differences between relative clauses and prepositional phrases, in that semantic content within clauses appears to be encapsulated from surrounding content more so than the content of a prepositional phrase.