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. 2000 Jan;29(1):53-68.
doi: 10.1023/a:1005172406969.

Discourse before gender: an event-related brain potential study on the interplay of semantic and syntactic information during spoken language understanding

C M Brown  1 , J J van Berkum, P Hagoort
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Discourse before gender: an event-related brain potential study on the interplay of semantic and syntactic information during spoken language understanding

C M Brown et al. J Psycholinguist Res. 2000 Jan.

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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