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NEUROREPORT
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 361-364Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200203040-00022
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early positivity; ERPs; sentence processing; thematic reanalysis
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On the basis of an experiment using event-related brain potentials (EPRs), we argue that a characterisation of language-related positivities as necessarily syntax-related is too restrictive. Our data show that, in verb-final German clauses, the processing of a verb which disconfirms the expectations with regard to the hierarchical thematic structure of a sentence (who is doing what to whom) gives rise to an early (200-600 ms) parietal positivity. Thus, positive ERP components elicited during language processing appear to be related to operations (most often revisions) applying to hierarchically structured linguistic information in general, rather than to syntactic structure in particular. NeuroReport 13:361-364 (C) 2002 Lippincott Williams Wilkins.
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