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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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Brown,  Colin M.
Neurocognition of Language Processing , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Van Berkum,  Jos J. A.
Neurocognition of Language Processing , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Hagoort,  Peter
Neurocognition of Language Processing , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Brown, C. M., Van Berkum, J. J. A., & Hagoort, P. (2000). Discourse before gender: An event-related brain potential study on the interplay of semantic and syntactic information during spoken language understanding. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(1), 53-68. doi:10.1023/A:1005172406969.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-2162-5
Abstract
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.