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| Title | Left-edge boundary tone and main clause verb effects on syntactic processing in embedded clauses - An ERP study |
| Author/s | Mikael Roll, Merle Horne, Magnus Lindgren |
| Department/s |
Linguistics and Phonetics
Department of Psychology |
| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Alternative location (URL) | http://www.sciencedirect.com/s... |
| Alternative location (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jn... |
| Publication/Series | Journal of Neurolinguistics |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55 - 73 |
| Document type | Journal article |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Abstract English | We examined the effects of main clause verb pragmatics and left-edge boundary tones on syntactic processing in Swedish embedded clauses, using listener judgments and Event-Related Potentials. When the syntactic structure did not match the expectation based on the occurrence of a left-edge boundary tone, the acceptance rate decreased significantly, and a biphasic positive effect with an early peak (P345) and a late peak (P600) showed increased processing load. A larger continuous positive effect (P600) was obtained by changing an assertive main clause verb to a nonassertive verb, thereby modifying the lexical pragmatic context of the embedded clause. Increased positivity was also seen at the left-edge boundary tone when it mismatched a preceding nonassertive verb. We conclude that left-edge boundary tones are used in addition to verb pragmatics to guide the syntactic processing of embedded clauses in Swedish, and that pragmatic and prosodic information is integrated immediately. |
| Subject |
Languages and Literatures |
| Keywords | Prosody, ERP, Syntax, Pragmatics, Boundary tone, Intonation, P600 |
| ISBN/ISSN/Other |
ISSN: 0911-6044 |
| Project | Grammar, Prosody, Discourse and the Brain. ERP-studies in speech processing |
| Project | Cognition, Communication and Learning |
| Funder |
Swedish Research Council |
| References | References |
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