An Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) Study of Complex Anaphora in Spanish.

ABSTRACT: This study examines the event- related brain potential (ERP) of 25 Mexican monolingual Spanish-speakers when reading Spanish sentences with single entity anaphora or complex anaphora. Complex anaphora is an expression that refer to propositions, states, facts or events while, a single entity anaphora is an expression that refers back to a concrete object. Here we compare the cognitive cost in processing a single entity anaphora [ésta _feminine; La renuncia (resignation)] from a complex anaphora [esto _neuter; La renuncia fue aceptada (The resignation was accepted)]. Ésta elicited a larger positive peak at 200 ms, and esto elicited a larger frontal negativity around 400 ms. The positivity resembles the P200 component, and its amplitude is thou

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Sierra A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8012726 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature