Examining the evidence for an independent semantic analyzer: An ERP study in Spanish

Stroud, Clare; Phillips, Colin

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.02.001

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“…A by-product of such a mechanism is that the language processing system is able to anticipate or predict upcoming words (see Federmeier and Kutas, 1999;Shoben, 1983, 1985;Schwanenflugel et al, 1988;van Berkum, 2009). This is also consistent with the idea of 'readiness' of information from the memory and text comprehension literature (see e.g., Gerrig, 2005;Gerrig and McKoon, 1998), With respect to the SIE data, the retrieval hypothesis provides a different perspective on the absence of an N400-effect in sentences such as 'De speer heeft de atleten geworpen' (lit: The javelin has the athletes thrown) (see Stroud, 2009;Stroud and Phillips, 2011, for a similar proposal). For both this sentence and its control 'De speer werd door de atleten geworpen' (lit:…”

Section: N400 As Memory Retrievalsupporting

confidence: 64%

“…The P600-effect elicited by syntactic violations and gardenpaths thus appears to reflect processes of syntactic revision or syntactic repair. In the Hagoort et al (1993) study, for instance, such revision could involve correcting number agreement by mentally adjusting the critical verb's inflection (for similar proposals see Kim and Osterhout, 2005;Kim and Sikos, 2011;Stroud, 2009;Stroud and Phillips, 2011). Results by Kaan et al (2000) challenged the interpretation of P600 amplitude as an index of syntactic revision.…”

Section: P600 As Mental Representation Compositionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…For instance, a recent review of the linguistic processes underlying the P600 component (Gouvea et al, 2010) concludes that the P600 amplitude is an index of the construction and deconstruction of syntactic relations (see also Kim and Osterhout, 2005;Kim and Sikos, 2011;Stroud, 2009;Stroud and Phillips, 2011). Clearly, syntactic complexities and anomalies do elicit a P600-effect, but we believe they do so because they create difficulties in constructing a mental representation.…”

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Getting real about Semantic Illusions: Rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension

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In traditional theories of language comprehension, syntactic and semantic processing are inextricably linked. This assumption has been challenged by the 'Semantic Illusion Effect' found in studies using Event Related brain Potentials. Semantically anomalous sentences did not produce the expected increase in N400 amplitude but rather one in P600 amplitude. To explain these findings, complex models have been devised in which an independent semantic processing stream can arrive at a sentence interpretation that may differ from the interpretation prescribed by the syntactic structure of the sentence. We review five such multi-stream models and argue that they do not account for the full range of relevant results because they assume that the amplitude of the N400 indexes some form of semantic integration. Based on recent evidence we argue that N400 amplitude might reflect the retrieval of lexical information from memory. On this view, the absence of an N400-effect in Semantic Illusion sentences can be explained in terms of priming. Furthermore, we suggest that semantic integration, which has previously been linked to the N400 component, might be reflected in the P600 instead. When combined, these functional interpretations result in a single-stream account of language processing that can explain all of the Semantic Illusion data.

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Section: N400 As Memory Retrievalsupporting

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Section: P600 As Mental Representation Compositionmentioning

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“…Many have shown that comprehenders can readily detect the implausibility that results from the reversal of the arguments' roles (e.g., Kolk et al, 2003). Further, ERP studies across different languages have shown that argument role reversals elicit a larger late positivity (a P600 effect; e.g., Kim & Osterhout, 2005;Kolk et al, 2003;Stroud & Phillips, 2012;Ye & Zhou, 2008), which has been associated with error detection and reanalysis (Coulson, King, & Kutas, 1998;Hagoort, Brown, & Groothusen, 1993;Hahne & Friederici, 1999;Kuperberg, 2007;Osterhout & Holcomb, 1992;van de Meerendonk, Kolk, Vissers, & Chwilla, 2010). These results suggest that information about the arguments' structural roles can immediately impact comprehenders' interpretation, but it does not seem to affect the cognitive processes that underlie the N400 response.…”

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“…Relatedly, there is an additional body of studies that examine the effects of role reversals in verb-medial sentences (e.g., 'The hearty meal was devouring/devoured …'; Kim & Osterhout, 2005;Kuperberg, Sitnikova, Caplan, & Holcomb, 2003;Stroud & Phillips, 2012).…”

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Wait a second! delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction

Chow

Lau

Wang

et al. 2018

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Comprehenders can use rich contextual information to anticipate upcoming input on the fly, but recent findings suggest that salient information about argument roles may not impact verb prediction. We took advantage of the word order properties of Mandarin Chinese to examine the time course with which argument role information impacts verb prediction. We isolated the contribution of argument role information by manipulating the order of pre-verbal noun phrase arguments while holding lexical information constant, and we examined its effects on accessing the verb in long-term semantic memory by measuring the amplitude of the N400 component.Experiment 1 showed when the verb appeared immediately after its arguments, even strongly constraining argument role information failed to modulate the N400 response to the verb. An N400 effect emerged in Experiment 2 when the verb appeared at a greater delay. Experiment 3 corroborated the contrast between the first two experiments through a within-participants manipulation of the time interval between the arguments and the verb, by varying the position of an adverbial phrase. These results suggest time is a key factor governing how diverse contextual information contributes to predictions. Here argument role information is shown to impact verb prediction, but its effect is not immediate.3

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Examining the evidence for an independent semantic analyzer: An ERP study in Spanish

Cited by 43 publications

References 57 publications

Getting real about Semantic Illusions: Rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension

Getting real about Semantic Illusions: Rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension

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