A neurolinguistic study of South Swedish word accents: Electrical brain potentials in nouns and verbs

Roll, Mikael

doi:10.1017/s0332586515000189

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“…Importantly, monolinguals successfully predicted the target words above chance in both tasks, regardless of stress (paroxytone, oxytone) and syllabic structure (CVC, CV). These findings are in line with Roll and colleagues' experiments showing that Swedish monolinguals use word tone to predict present-past tense verb suffixes (Roll, 2015;Söderström et al, 2012). Our study contributes to this body of literature by demonstrating that these findings extend to other languages (Spanish) and suprasegmental cues (stress).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…We predict that Spanish monolinguals will integrate stress cues to pre-activate morphological information that will allow them to make lexical predictions. This prediction follows L1 studies showing that Swedish monolinguals use word tone to anticipate the same type of morphological information we are investigating, namely present-past verb tense suffixes (Roll, 2015;Söderström et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…However, little is known about monolinguals' use of prosodic cues to anticipate grammatical information within a word. Roll and colleagues report that Swedish monolinguals use word tone to pre-activate suffixes to predict nouns (Roll et al, 2010;Roll, 2015) and verbs (present and past tense suffixes: Roll, 2015;Söderström et al, 2012), as well as pseudowords and words with suffixes replaced with a cough (Söderström et al, 2017). We investigate whether the findings of these tone studies carry over to other prosodic cues (word stress) and languages (Spanish).…”

Section: Prosodic Cues In L1 Anticipationmentioning

confidence: 91%

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Suprasegmental information cues morphological anticipation during L1/L2 lexical access

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Casillas

2018

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We use visual-world eye-tracking and gating methods to investigate whether Spanish monolinguals and English late learners of Spanish use prosodic cues (lexical stress) to anticipate morphological information (suffixes) during spoken word recognition, and if they do, whether L2 proficiency and working memory (WM) mediate their anticipatory abilities. Our findings show that the monolinguals used prosodic information to predict word endings in both tasks, regardless of first-syllable stress (stressed, unstressed) and structure (CV, CVC). In contrast, the beginning learners did not use prosodic information to anticipate word suffixes in any task or condition. Importantly, the advanced learners mirrored the monolinguals, except in words with first-syllable CV structure, but were slower than the monolinguals. Finally, WM was not associated with anticipatory eye movements, though results were inconclusive for offline processing. Taken together, the present study shows that suprasegmental information facilitates morphological anticipation during spoken word recognition, and that adult learners can gain anticipatory processing patterns qualitatively, but not quantitatively, similar to monolinguals.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Prosodic Cues In L1 Anticipationmentioning

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Suprasegmental information cues morphological anticipation during L1/L2 lexical access

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Casillas

2018

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“…It is not clear, however, just what this effect reflects. It is not due to an acoustic difference between word accent tones, since it has also been found for South Swedish, in which the word accents are the mirror image of those in Central Swedish: accent 1 can be analysed as a high tone while accent 2 is a low tone (Roll 2015). Furthermore, Roll et al.…”

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“…2010, 2013, 2015; Roll 2015). In previous studies, this effect has been viewed as a positively charged effect for accent 2.…”

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Stem Tones Pre-activate Suffixes in the Brain

Söderström

Horne

Roll

2016

J Psycholinguist Res

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Results from the present event-related potentials (ERP) study show that tones on Swedish word stems can rapidly pre-activate upcoming suffixes, even when the word stem does not carry any lexical meaning. Results also show that listeners are able to rapidly restore suffixes which are replaced with a cough. Accuracy in restoring suffixes correlated positively with the amplitude of an anterior negative ERP elicited by stem tones. This effect is proposed to reflect suffix pre-activation. Suffixes that were cued by an incorrect tone elicited a left-anterior negativity and a P600, suggesting that the correct processing of the suffix is crucially tied to the activation of the preceding validly associated tone.

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Children’s novel NN compounding in Swedish diary data: function and form

Rosenberg

Mellenius

2018

Morphology

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This study explores formal aspects and functions of 420 novel noun-noun (NN) compounds in diary data from three Swedish children (1;9-6;11). With regard to form, the data show that the children's compounds respect target head order, allow for a small amount of internal inflection, and, in more than half of the cases where a liaison form is required, are properly formed. Most of the compounds concatenate two nouns (without the presence of liaison forms), as is the general case for Swedish NN compounds. With regard to function, the data permit us to distinguish three main functions of the coinages: I. Novel compound instead of established term, II. Novel compound for novel category, and III. Novel compound for specific entity. Type I involves attempts to target conventional compounds by relying either on perceptual or functional features or on recalled semantic, phonological, and/or morphological cues. Type II is innovative compounding par excellence: detailed discriminations and fantasy concepts are named. Type III divides into anaphoric and deictic uses as well as what we call appropriation, i.e. naming a specific entity. Types II and III are functions displayed by novel compounds in general. In conclusion, the three children seem to master the central facets of NN compounds, formally and functionally. Furthermore, compound production can constitute a simple and efficient means for young children to maximize and build more structure into their lexicon.

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A neurolinguistic study of South Swedish word accents: Electrical brain potentials in nouns and verbs

Cited by 29 publications

References 16 publications

Suprasegmental information cues morphological anticipation during L1/L2 lexical access

Suprasegmental information cues morphological anticipation during L1/L2 lexical access

Stem Tones Pre-activate Suffixes in the Brain

Children’s novel NN compounding in Swedish diary data: function and form

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