Event-related brain responses to morphological violations in Catalan

Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Harald Clahsen, Conxita Lleó, Wanda Zaake, Thomas F. Münte*

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    Abstract

    The ERP (event-related potential) violation paradigm was used to investigate brain responses to morphologically correct and incorrect verb forms of Catalan. Violations of stem formation and inflectional processes were examined in separate experimental conditions. Our most interesting finding is that misapplications of stem formation rules elicit an early left preponderant negativity. This complements our previous ERP results on morphological violations in other languages in which misapplications of inflectional rules were shown to produce such effects. We make use of the linguistic distinction between lexically stored and rule-based word forms and suggest a unified interpretation of the experimental results, arguing that these negativities vary as a function of processes involved in morpho-syntactic structure building.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalCognitive Brain Research
    Volume11
    Issue number1
    Pages (from-to)47-58
    Number of pages12
    ISSN0926-6410
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 13.03.2001

    Research Areas and Centers

    • Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)

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