Spread the word: MMN brain response reveals whole-form access of discontinuous particle verbs

Hanna, Jeff; Cappelle, Bert; Pulvermüller, Friedemann

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2017.10.002

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“…As in Hanna et al (2017) , we have interpreted the incongruity-sensitive late time window as an N400, though there are some key morphological difference between our result and a canonical N400. First, the component we found is substantially weaker than that of typical N400s.…”

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“…These 50 possible combinations, according to our two assessments, cover a wide spectrum of incongruity, from completely unacceptable, to ambiguous, to completely acceptable. A previous study we conducted with separable-affix pairs, using the linguistic MMN paradigm ( Pulvermüller and Shtyrov, 2006 ) found – in addition to the expected MMN enhancement for correct combinations – a late negative component for incorrect combinations of stem and affix, which we interpreted as an N400 ( Hanna et al, 2017 ).…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Further, both types of measures produced reliable ERP correlations, though the ARS model performed better than the lPMI model, and the two combined using principal component analysis performed best of all. There are three points to discuss in light of these results: (1) potential reasons for the different performance among the measures, (2) the relation of these results to the general N400 literature, and (3) the relation of these results to those of the previous separable affix verb study ( Hanna et al, 2017 ).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Therefore we may expect more incongruous pairings of stem and affix to produce stronger N400s. The critical question is whether the N400 would vary continuously with incongruity, as the relatively limited number of items used in Hanna et al (2017) were not sufficient to make such an inference. Though this study did not use an MMN paradigm like Hanna et al (2017) , the N200 time window could nevertheless once again produce a lexical effect, i.e., more incongruent pairings produce weaker peaks than congruent pairings.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Congruency of Separable Affix Verb Combinations Is Linearly Indexed by the N400

Hanna

Pulvermüller

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Separable affix verbs consist of a stem and a derivational affix, which, in some languages can appear together or in discontinuous, distributed form, e.g., German “aufgreifen” and “greifen … auf” [“up-pick(ing)” and “pick … up”]. Certain stems can combine with only certain affixes. However, many such combinations are evaluated not as clearly correct or incorrect, but frequently take an intermediate status with participants rating them ambiguously. Here, we mapped brain responses to combinations of verb stems and affixes realized in short sentences, including more and less common particle verbs, borderline acceptable combinations and clear violations. Event-related potential responses to discontinuous particle verbs were obtained for five affixes re-combined with 10 verb stems, situated within short, German sentences, i.e., “sie en es ,” English: “they it .” The congruity of combinations was assessed both with behavioral ratings of the stimuli and corpus-derived probability measures. The size of a frontal N400 correlated with the degree of incongruency between stem and affix, as assessed by both measures. Behavioral ratings performed better than corpus-derived measures in predicting N400 magnitudes, and a combined model performed best of all. No evidence for a discrete, right/wrong effect was found. We discuss methodological implications and integrate the results into past research on the N400 and neurophysiological studies on separable-affix verbs, generally.

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Congruency of Separable Affix Verb Combinations Is Linearly Indexed by the N400

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Pulvermüller

2018

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“…Preprocessing of the EEG data was conducted using BrainVision Analyser 2.1.2 software (Brain Products GmbH). First, high-and low-pass filters were applied at 0.1-30 Hz, following filtering parameters applied in similar studies [46][47]. New bipolar horizontal and vertical EOG signals were computed by subtracting differences between monopolar channels above (Right-Left for HEOG and VEOG-Fp2, respectively) using the Formula Evaluator function.…”

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Automatic Integration of Gender Information during Phrase Processing: ERP Evidence

Alekseeva

Myachykov

Margaretto

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Both linguistic (e.g., words, syntax) and extralinguistic (e.g., voice quality) information needs to be considered by interlocutors during linguistic communication. The effects of extralinguistic information on neural sentence processing are particularly poorly understood. Here, we used EEG and passive non-attend design with visual distraction in order to investigate how extralinguistic information affects brain activity during syntactic processing. We collected ERPs while participants listened to Russian pronoun-verb phrases recorded in either male or female voice. We manipulated congruency between the grammatical gender signaled by the verb’s ending and the speaker’s apparent gender. We registered both early and late phrase processing signatures in the incongruent conditions including ELAN (peaking at ∼150 ms) and N400. Our data suggest a high degree of automaticity in integrating extralinguistic information during syntactic processing indicating existence of a rapid automatic syntactic integration mechanism sensitive to both linguistic and extralinguistic information.

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2018

Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web

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Spread the word: MMN brain response reveals whole-form access of discontinuous particle verbs

Cited by 18 publications

References 66 publications

Congruency of Separable Affix Verb Combinations Is Linearly Indexed by the N400

Congruency of Separable Affix Verb Combinations Is Linearly Indexed by the N400

Automatic Integration of Gender Information during Phrase Processing: ERP Evidence

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