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Investigating Adaptation to And-Coordination in English: An ERP Study

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العنوان: Investigating Adaptation to And-Coordination in English: An ERP Study
المؤلفون: Edith Kaan
المصدر: Languages ; Volume 8 ; Issue 3 ; Pages: 207
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: adaptation, coordination, EEG, ERP, syntactic ambiguity, N400, P600
الوصف: According to certain approaches to adaptation, readers and listeners quickly adjust their processing of sentences to match properties of recently encountered sentences. The present preregistered study used ERP (event-related brain potentials) to investigate how and when readers change their processing in response to recent exposure to sentences of a particular structure. We presented English speakers (n = 36) with three virtual blocks of English sentences with and-coordination ambiguities. In the first and third block, the ambiguity was always resolved towards a noun phrase (NP-) coordination; in the second block, the structure was always a clausal (S-) coordination. We manipulated the plausibility of the critical noun after the conjunct. N400 and P600 plausibility effects were probed to see to what extent the reader preferred an NP- coordination or expected the sentence to continue differently. Our results suggest that readers change their processing as a function of recent exposure but that they do not immediately adapt to the target structure. Furthermore, we observed substantial individual variation in the type and change in response over the course of the study. The idea that structural adaptation is immediate and a direct reflection of the properties of the recent context therefore needs to be fine-tuned.
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وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8030207
DOI: 10.3390/languages8030207
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030207
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.441F3EDB
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.3390/languages8030207