Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress: A Mismatch Negativity Study.

ABSTRACT: Previous electroencephalography studies have yielded evidence for automatic processing of syntax and lexical stress. However, these studies looked at both effects in isolation, limiting their generalizability to everyday language comprehension. In the current study, we investigated automatic processing of grammatical agreement in the face of variation in lexical stress. Using an oddball paradigm, we measured the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in Dutch-speaking participants while they listened to Dutch subject-verb sequences (linguistic context) or acoustically similar sequences in which the subject was replaced by filtered noise (nonlinguistic context). The verb forms differed in the inflectional suffix, rendering the subject-verb sequences grammatically correct or incorrect, and leading to a d

SUBMITTER: Coopmans CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9976639 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature