Article outline

• 1.1What’s in this chapter
• 1.2What the FGI is and what it does
• 1.3Interaction at the FGI and its consequences
• 1.4The theory of snowflakes
• 1.5The FGI amid a tidal change in language theory
• 1.6The FGI and the ‘three factors in language design’
• 1.7The reunification of the discipline
• 1.8The FGI is an interface
• 1.9Statistical information concerns regularities in the input
• 1.10Grammatical information concerns abstract labels
• 1.11Two examples of abstract labels in Italian
• 1.12Statistical information reprograms grammatical information
• 1.13The neural basis of reprogramming the grammar
• 1.14The information the FGI deals with is redundant
• 1.15The information the FGI deals with is implicit
• 1.16Evidence for the FGI: Predictions in language processing
  • 1.16.1Patterns, rules, and speakers’ expectations
  • 1.16.2The electrophysiology of language predictions
  • 1.16.3Negativities appearing within the 400–600 ms window from the critical word onset
  • 1.16.4The sustained anterior negativity indexes the cognitive costs of expectations
  • 1.16.5Expectations are formed upon a speaker’s repeated exposure and language use
• 1.17Evidence for the FGI: The coexistence of the lexical and phonological route in reading
• 1.18To sum up