Event-related brain responses to morphological violations in Catalan

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

doi:10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00063-X

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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Department of Neurology

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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 language	English
Journal	Cognitive Brain Research
Volume	11
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	47-58
Number of pages	12
ISSN	0926-6410
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00063-X
Publication status	Published - 13.03.2001

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Supported by a NATO Collaborative Research grant (project # 970636), jointly awarded to ARF, HC and TFM and DFG-grant MU1311/7-1 to TFM. ARF was supported by a Post-doctoral Fellowship from the Spanish Government. We thank Joaquim Rafel and Pere Compañó from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans for making the electronic version of the Diccionari de Freqüències available to CL before its publication, Nuria Rodo for correcting Catalan stories, and Tessa Say for detailed comments on an earlier version of this article. We also thank Wido Nager and Urbano Lorenzo for their help during this project, and especially our subjects who kindly agreed to participate in this experiment. Appendix A

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