Left-edge boundary tone and main clause verb effects on syntactic processing in embedded clauses - An ERP study
Roll, Mikael LU ; Horne, Merle LU
and Lindgren, Magnus
LU
(2009)
In Journal of Neurolinguistics
22(1).
p.55-73
- Abstract
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
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- Roll, Mikael
LU
; Horne, Merle
LU
and Lindgren, Magnus
LU
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- 2009
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- keywords
- ERP, Prosody, Syntax, Pragmatics, Boundary tone, Intonation, P600
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- Journal of Neurolinguistics
- volume
- 22
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 55 - 73
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- Elsevier
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- wos:000262112500004
- scopus:56449083653
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- 0911-6044
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.06.001
- project
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
- Grammar, Prosody, Discourse and the Brain. ERP-studies of Language Processing
- language
- English
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