Electrophysiological responses to violations of morphosyntactic and prosodic features in derived German nouns

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 466-482

  Janssen, Ulrike ^a   Wiese, Richard ^a   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; German derivational morphology; Morphosyntax; Prosody; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33748614070     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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