Neural correlates of Dutch Verb Second in speech production

DENOUDEN, D

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.05.001

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“…Therefore, there is no indication that an SV f O order preference in sentence processing overrides syntactic constraints on sentence structure in Dutch, as suggested earlier by Weyerts et al (2002) for German. V2 is a construction that only occurs when its syntactic structural conditions are met (cf Zwart 2001), in which case it is possibly associated with increased processing cost in production, if not in comprehension, relative to constructions in which finite verbs remain in their base sentence(-final) position (Den Ouden et al 2008).…”

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“…This syntactic analysis of extra processing effort for V2 constructions runs counter to frequency data (cf. Den Ouden et al 2008;Bastiaanse et al 2009) and it is perfectly possible that it also runs counter to semantic or pragmatic preferences of processing. Competition of language constraints of different levels and types, however, certainly does not mean these are incompatible, so it may well be that syntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints on structure preference compete in sentence processing and production, on the road to optimal wellformedness.…”

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“…Den Ouden et al 2008;Bastiaanse et al 2009), which creates an interesting dissociation with the formal syntactic analysis of a structure requiring an 'extra step', as well as with the relative difficulty that agrammatic speakers have with V2. Using fMRI, Den Ouden et al (2008) have shown that production of V2 constructions in Dutch is indeed associated with increased neural processing in healthy speakers, as compared to production of phrases in which the verb is in its sentence-final, or base, position. ERPs provide a fairly direct window on the time course of cognitive processing.…”

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The Electrophysiological Manifestation of Dutch Verb Second Violations

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Bastiaanse

2009

J Psycholinguist Res

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We investigated the processing of violations of the verb position in Dutch, in a group of healthy subjects, by measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) through electroencephalography (EEG). In Dutch, the base position of the verb is clause final, but in matrix clauses, the finite verb is in second position, a construction known as Verb Second. In embedded clauses, the finite verb remains in its clause-final base position. The results show that ungrammatical placement of finite verbs in second position in embedded clauses yields a P600 response, which suggests that the parser treats this type of violation as a clear syntactic anomaly. This is in contrast to accounts by which a general preference for subject-verb-object word order in languages like Dutch is reflected by an absence of P600 effects in response to violations of Verb Second.

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The Electrophysiological Manifestation of Dutch Verb Second Violations

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Bastiaanse

2009

J Psycholinguist Res

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“…Actually, there is independent fMRI evidence that early placement of main verbs increases the BOLD response in comparison to later placement. den Ouden, Hoogduin, Stowe, and Bastiaanse (2008) found that Dutch activevoice clauses with Subject-Verb-Object order elicited larger BOLD responses in left middle to superior frontal regions than actives with Subject-Object-Verb order. 5 Our tentative explanation of the differential effect of the lexical boost for actives versus passives could be tested by repeating the present experiment with slightly different Dutch stimulus materials where the active sentences embody a perfectum construction, with the main verbs realized as past-participles (e.g.…”

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Syntactic priming and the lexical boost effect during sentence production and sentence comprehension: An fMRI study

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a b s t r a c tBehavioral syntactic priming effects during sentence comprehension are typically observed only if both the syntactic structure and lexical head are repeated. In contrast, during production syntactic priming occurs with structure repetition alone, but the effect is boosted by repetition of the lexical head. We used fMRI to investigate the neuronal correlates of syntactic priming and lexical boost effects during sentence production and comprehension. The critical measure was the magnitude of fMRI adaptation to repetition of sentences in active or passive voice, with or without verb repetition. In conditions with repeated verbs, we observed adaptation to structure repetition in the left IFG and MTG, for active and passive voice. However, in the absence of repeated verbs, adaptation occurred only for passive sentences. None of the fMRI adaptation effects yielded differential effects for production versus comprehension, suggesting that sentence comprehension and production are subserved by the same neuronal infrastructure for syntactic processing.

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“…Consequently, additional linguistic processes such as conceptual and syntactic planning of utterances have to be taken into account. In addition to the studies by Indefrey et al (2001 and Haller et al (2005), Den Ouden et al (2008) have investigated syntactic processing, in particular the production of verb second in comparison to verb final clauses, a specific characteristic of Dutch and German. They emphasise the role of the left middle and superior frontal cortex for the production of verb second clauses, which are assumed to be the more complex ones.…”

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