Brain Potentials in the Processing of Complex Sentences: An ERP Study of Control and Raising Constructions |
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Authors: | Samuel Featherston Matthias Gross Thomas F Münte Harald Clahsen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Linguistic, University of Essex, Colchester, England, C043SQ;(2) Department of Neurology, Medical School of Hanover, Hanover, Germany;(3) Department of Linguistic, University of Essex, Colchester, England, C043SQ |
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Abstract: | In the present study we made use of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) to examine raising and subject control constructions in German. Our most salient result is that the ERPs elicited at the empty subject position of a raising construction are clearly different from those elicited at the corresponding position of an otherwise identical subject control construction, the former producing a stronger P600. We argue that this result provides an electrophysiological correlate of the theoretical distinction between NP trace and PRO. |
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