Native Word Order Processing Is Not Uniform: An ERP Study of Verb-Second Word Order.

ABSTRACT: Studies of native syntactic processing often target phrase structure violations that do not occur in natural production. In contrast, this study examines how variation in basic word order is processed, looking specifically at structures traditionally labelled as violations but that do occur naturally. We examined Swedish verb-second (V2) and verb-third (V3) word order processing in adult native Swedish speakers, manipulating sentence-initial adverbials (temporal idag 'today', spatial hemma 'at home' and sentential kanske 'maybe') in acceptability judgements, in simultaneously recorded event-related potentials (ERP) to visually presented sentences and in a written sentence completion task. An initial corpus study showed that the adverbials differ in frequency in fronted

SUBMITTER: Sayehli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006952 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature