Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms
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Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms. / Schremm, Andrea; Novén, Mikael; Horne, Merle; Roll, Mikael.
In: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Vol. 51, 2019, p. 76-83.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms
AU - Schremm, Andrea
AU - Novén, Mikael
AU - Horne, Merle
AU - Roll, Mikael
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The present electrophysiological study investigated irregular versus regular verb form processing in Swedish during reading. In line with previous results from other languages, overregularized verbs, i.e. incorrect irregular stem + regular past tense suffix combinations (e.g. *stjäl + de ‘steal + past tense’), elicited a left-lateralized negativity (LAN) relative to correct irregulars (stal ‘stole’), suggesting rule-based decomposition of regularly inflected words. Lack of a similar effect for misapplication of the irregular stem formation pattern on regular verbs (e.g. *löft ‘lifted’ instead of lyfte) suggests the involvement of different processing mechanisms, possibly whole word access, for irregular items, at least to some degree. A P600 showing reprocessing was seen for all incorrect forms. The results add cross-linguistic support for morphological decomposition in the verbal inflection of a language where results from previous neurolinguistic studies of nominal inflection have only suggested the use of full-form access to words.
AB - The present electrophysiological study investigated irregular versus regular verb form processing in Swedish during reading. In line with previous results from other languages, overregularized verbs, i.e. incorrect irregular stem + regular past tense suffix combinations (e.g. *stjäl + de ‘steal + past tense’), elicited a left-lateralized negativity (LAN) relative to correct irregulars (stal ‘stole’), suggesting rule-based decomposition of regularly inflected words. Lack of a similar effect for misapplication of the irregular stem formation pattern on regular verbs (e.g. *löft ‘lifted’ instead of lyfte) suggests the involvement of different processing mechanisms, possibly whole word access, for irregular items, at least to some degree. A P600 showing reprocessing was seen for all incorrect forms. The results add cross-linguistic support for morphological decomposition in the verbal inflection of a language where results from previous neurolinguistic studies of nominal inflection have only suggested the use of full-form access to words.
KW - Event-related potentials
KW - Inflection
KW - LAN
KW - Left anterior negativity
KW - Morphology
KW - P600
U2 - 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.01.006
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85060752003
VL - 51
SP - 76
EP - 83
JO - Journal of Neurolinguistics
JF - Journal of Neurolinguistics
SN - 0911-6044
ER -
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