Prosodic boundaries, comma rules, and brain responses: The closure positive shift in ERPs as a universal marker for prosodic phrasing in listeners and readers

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-295

  Steinhauer, Karsten ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Closure positive shift; Comma processing; Covert prosody; CPS; ERP; Event related brain potentials; P600; Punctuation; Reversed garden path

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035349365     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010443001646     Document Type: Article

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