The morphosyntactic decomposition and semantic composition of German compound words investigated by ERPs

Brain and Language

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-79

  Koester, Dirk ^a   Gunter, Thomas C ^b   Wagner, Susanne ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory language comprehension; Cognitive neuroscience; Compound words; ERPs; German; Morphosyntax; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249338371     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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