Processing flexible form-to-meaning mappings: Evidence for enriched composition as opposed to indeterminacy

Roehm, Dietmar; Sorace, Antonella; Bornkessel-­Schlesewsky, Ina

doi:10.1080/01690965.2012.712143

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“…We pooled posterior electrodes because N400 effects typically are strongest there (Freunberger & Nieuwland, 2016;Nieuwland, 2015;Nieuwland & Kuperberg, 2008) and in order to avoid a large number of higher order interactions as would be the case with additional distributional factors (cf. Roehm, Sorace, & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, 2013). 4 Continuous variables (cloze value, ONS, frequency, and adverb impact) were rescaled by means of global ztransformation and centered around zero.…”

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The costs of being certain: Brain potential evidence for linguistic preactivation in sentence processing

Freunberger

Roehm

2017

Psychophysiology

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Prediction in sentence comprehension is often investigated by measuring the amplitude of the N400 ERP component to words that are more or less predictable from their preceding context. The N400-linked to the activation of word-associated semantic information-is reduced for words that are predictable, indicating that preactivation can lead to facilitated processing. We addressed the question whether there is measurable neural activity related to the preactivation of linguistic information before input confirms or disconfirms this prediction. We therefore measured ERPs not only to moderately to highly predictable target words, but also to preceding adverbs. Based on two separate cloze pretests, we quantified the impact of the adverb upon the predictability of the subsequent target word. Using linear mixed-effects analyses, we could show that the N400 amplitude at the target word was inversely related to target cloze value, thus replicating the finding that prediction has a facilitative effect on semantic processing. Crucially, the N400 amplitude at the pretarget adverb was modulated by adverb impact: When adverbs increased the predictability of the following word, the N400 was more negative going. We argue that this effect is related to the preactivation of linguistic information. Our findings indicate that the specification of predictions can lead to additional processes before these predictions are confirmed or disconfirmed and that activation of word-associated information through prediction is highly comparable to activation through actual input.

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The costs of being certain: Brain potential evidence for linguistic preactivation in sentence processing

Freunberger

Roehm

2017

Psychophysiology

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“…It is important to keep in mind that in our study, the auxiliary was the last word in the critical test clause with the verbal participle preceding it. This is a crucial difference between our study and the ERP study of Roehm et al (2012) mentioned in the introduction, where the auxiliary was in second position and the verbal participle came last. Roehm and colleagues found an N400 at the verbal participle when the meaning of the verb did not match the auxiliary.…”

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“…The main claim of Keller and Sorace (2003:75) is that core verbs exhibit categorical judgments for auxiliary selection, while intermediate verbs elicit gradient preferences. Converging support for this claim stems from experiments using acceptability judgments (Keller and Sorace, 2003, Experiment 1), eye-tracking (Bard et al, 2010) and event-related brain potentials (Roehm et al, 2012).…”

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The interaction between telicity and agentivity: Experimental evidence from intransitive verbs in German and Chinese

Graf

Philipp

Xü

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Lingua

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Telicity and agentivity are semantic factors that split intransitive verbs into (at least two) different classes. Clear-cut unergative verbs, which select the auxiliary HAVE, are assumed to be atelic and agent-selecting; unequivocally unaccusative verbs, which select the auxiliary BE, are analyzed as telic and patient-selecting. Thus, agentivity and telicity are assumed to be inversely correlated in split intransitivity. We will present semantic and experimental evidence from German and Mandarin Chinese that casts doubts on this widely held assumption. The focus of our experimental investigation lies on variation with respect to agentivity (specifically motion control, manipulated via animacy), telicity (tested via a locative vs. goal adverbial), and BE/HAVE-selection with semantically flexible intransitive verbs of motion. Our experimental methods are acceptability ratings for German and Chinese (Experiments 1 and 2) and event-related potential (ERP) measures for German (Experiment 3). Our findings contradict the abovementioned assumption that agentivity and telicity are generally inversely correlated and suggest that for the verbs under study, agentivity and telicity harmonize with each other. Furthermore, the ERP measures reveal that the impact of the interaction under discussion is more pronounced on the verb lexeme than on the auxiliary. We also found differences between Chinese and German that relate to the influence of telicity on BE/HAVE-selection. They seem to confirm the claim in previous research that the weight of the telicity factor locomotion (or internal motion) is cross-linguistically variable.

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“…with some correlations going to ±1), many of the usual tests for failed convergence will give false positives, resulting in a situation where the usual diagnostics for model convergence are difficult to assess. 8 Although there exist a number of possibilities for addressing such difficulties, they are beyond the scope of this brief introduction.…”

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Principles of statistical analyses: old and new tools

Kretzschmar¹,

Alday²

2020

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The present chapter provides an overview of old and new statistical tools to analyze electrophysiological data on language processing. We will first introduce the very basic tenets of experimental designs and their intimate links to statistical design. Based on this, we introduce the analysis of variance (ANOVA) approach which has been the classical statistical tool to analyze event-related potentials (ERPs) in language research. After discussing the merits and disadvantages of the approach, we focus on introducing mixed-effects regression models as a viable alternative to traditional ANOVA analyses. We close with an overview offuture directions that mixed-effects modeling opens up for language researchers using ERPs or other electrophysiological measures.

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Processing flexible form-to-meaning mappings: Evidence for enriched composition as opposed to indeterminacy

Cited by 11 publications

References 62 publications

The costs of being certain: Brain potential evidence for linguistic preactivation in sentence processing

The costs of being certain: Brain potential evidence for linguistic preactivation in sentence processing

The interaction between telicity and agentivity: Experimental evidence from intransitive verbs in German and Chinese

Principles of statistical analyses: old and new tools

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