Discourse Before Gender: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study on the Interplay of Semantic and Syntactic Information During Spoken Language Understanding |
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| Authors: | Colin M Brown Jos J A van Berkum Peter Hagoort |
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| Institution: | (1) Neurocognition of language processing Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;(2) Neurocognition of language processing Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | A study is presented on the effects of discourse–semantic and lexical–syntactic information during spoken sentence processing. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were registered while subjects listened to discourses that ended in a sentence with a temporary syntactic ambiguity. The prior discourse–semantic information biased toward one analysis of the temporary ambiguity, whereas the lexical-syntactic information allowed only for the alternative analysis. The ERP results show that discourse–semantic information can momentarily take precedence over syntactic information, even if this violates grammatical gender agreement rules. |
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