Discourse before gender: An event-related brain potential study on the interplay of semantic and syntactic information during spoken language understanding

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作者
Brown, CM [1 ]
van Berkum, JJA [1 ]
Hagoort, P [1 ]
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[1] Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, Neurocognit Language Proc Res Grp, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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10.1023/A:1005172406969
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H0 [语言学];
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030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
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A study is presented on the effects of discourse-semantic and lexical-syntactic information during spoken sentence processing. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were registered while subjects listened to discourses that ended in a sentence with a temporary syntactic ambiguity. The prior discourse-semantic information biased toward one analysis of the temporary ambiguity whereas the lexical-syntactic information allowed only for the alternative analysis. The ERP results show that discourse-semantic information can momentarily take precedence over syntactic information even if this violates grammatical gender agreement rules.
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