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Stem tones pre-activate suffixes in the brain

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Summary, in English

Results from the present event-related potentials (ERP) study show that tones on Swedish word stems can rapidly pre-activate upcoming suffixes, even when the word stem does not carry any lexical meaning. Results also show that listeners are able to rapidly restore suffixes which are replaced with a cough. Accuracy in restoring suffixes correlated positively with the amplitude of an anterior negative ERP elicited by stem tones. This effect is proposed to reflect suffix pre-activation. Suffixes that were cued by an incorrect tone elicited a left-anterior negativity and a P600, suggesting that the correct processing of the suffix is crucially tied to the activation of the preceding validly associated tone.

Publishing year

2017-04

Language

English

Pages

271-280

Publication/Series

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volume

46

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Neurosciences

Keywords

  • pre-activation
  • prosody
  • ERP
  • morphology
  • speech processing
  • LAN
  • P600
  • PrAN

Status

Published

Project

  • Tone-Grammar Interaction in the Human Brain: Mechanisms and Applications
  • The language melody game (LMG): Learning Swedish word accents using IT and digital media
  • Humanities and Medicine (HuMe)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0090-6905