20 research outputs found
Parameters of grammar and maturational effects: an ERP study on ergativity and object verb agreement processing by native versus nonnative speakers of Basque
Case and agreement morphology processing in bilinguals. Evidence from event-related potentials
Processing canonical and non-canonical sentences in Basque: The case of object-verb agreement as revealed by event-related brain potentials
Freumhan Falaichte
A CD of 11 original song compositions in Scottish Gaelic by Gillebride MacMillan. The words and melodies have been composed by MacMillan
Linguistic traits and maturational effects: ergativity in native and proficient non-native speakers of Basque. Evidence from ERPs
Parameters of grammar and maturational effects: an ERP study on ergativity and object verb agreement by natives and nonnatives of Basque
Electrophysiological correlates of head parameter processing in natives and highly proficient bilinguals.
ERP indexes of number attraction and word order during correct verb agreement production
Successful subject-verb agreement production requires retrieving the verbal forms that agree with the features of the subject head noun and not of other nouns in the sentence. We investigate, for the first time, the electrophysiological indexes of number attraction and word order during agreement production. Twenty-four Basque native speakers were tested while producing auxiliary verbs during sentence completion of transitive sentence preambles involving singular subjects and singular or plural objects in canonical (SOV) and non-canonical (OSV) structures. ERP results yielded a larger production P2 (pP2) amplitude for mismatching than matching objects in SOV sentences, and larger negativity for OSV than SOV in number matching condition. We explain these results in terms of distinct contributions of number and word order during correct agreement production, with the pP2 indexing morphosyntactic retrieval difficulty of agreement-inflection, and the frontal negativity reflecting word order effects during monitoring the correctness of the selected verbal form. © 2020 The Author