Information Structure Influences Depth of Syntactic Processing: Event-Related Potential Evidence for the Chomsky Illusion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a,b,c   Bastiaansen, Marcel ^b,c   Yang, Yufang ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOMSKY ILLUSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION STRUCTURE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; P600 EFFECTS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTIC PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NETHERLANDS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868140089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047917     Document Type: Article

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