Inflection across Categories: Tracking Abstract Morphological Processing in Language Production with MEG.

ABSTRACT: Coherent language production requires that speakers adapt words to their grammatical contexts. A fundamental challenge in establishing a functional delineation of this process in the brain is that each linguistic process tends to correlate with numerous others. Our work investigated the neural basis of morphological inflection by measuring magnetoencephalography during the planning of inflected and uninflected utterances that varied across several linguistic dimensions. Results reveal increased activity in the left lateral frontotemporal cortex when inflection is planned, irrespective of phonological specification, syntactic context, or semantic type. Additional findings from univariate and connectivity analyses suggest that the brain distinguishes between different types of inflection. Sp

SUBMITTER: Hauptman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016284 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature