Morphophonological influences on the comprehension of subject-verb agreement: An ERP study

Brain Research

Volumn 1228, Issue , 2008, Pages 135-144

  Severens, Els ^a   Jansma, Bernadette M ^b   Hartsuiker, Robert J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Production; Sentence comprehension; Subject verb agreement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 49349113099     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.092     Document Type: Article

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