Gapping: Electrophysiological evidence for immediate processing of "missing" verbs in sentence comprehension

@article{Kaanetal04, abstract = {In the present study we use event related potentials (ERPs) to explore the time course of identification and resolution of verb gaps. ERPs were recorded while participants read sentences that contained a verb gap like Ron took/sanded the planks, and Bill Ø the ... Plausibility of the critical words (hammer) that followed the verb gap was manipulated. Relative to the plausible control (preceded by took), ERPs to the critical word in the implausible condition (preceded by sanded) showed an N400, followed by a positivity (P600). ERPs to determiners following gapped verbs showed a negativity between 100 and 300 ms, and a positivity between 300 and 500 ms compared to determiners in non-gapping constructions. These results suggest that the sentence processor recognizes a verb gap and reconstructs the verb information at the earliest possible occasion, and that this reconstruction process is different from the reconstruction of antecedents in other filler-gap constructions (e.g., WH gaps).}, author = {Kaan, Edith and Wijnen, Frank and Swaab, Tamara Y. }, citeulike-article-id = {3014338}, doi = {10.1016/j.bandl.2004.02.004}, journal = {Brain and Language}, keywords = {cognition, comprehension, ellipsis, erp, language, n400, p600, vision}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {584--592}, posted-at = {2008-07-17 14:28:11}, priority = {3}, title = {Gapping: Electrophysiological evidence for immediate processing of "missing" verbs in sentence comprehension}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2004.02.004}, volume = {89}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - Kaanetal04 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3014338 TI - Gapping: Electrophysiological evidence for immediate processing of "missing" verbs in sentence comprehension JF - Brain and Language VL - 89 IS - 3 SP - 584 EP - 592 N2 - In the present study we use event related potentials (ERPs) to explore the time course of identification and resolution of verb gaps. ERPs were recorded while participants read sentences that contained a verb gap like Ron took/sanded the planks, and Bill Ø the ... Plausibility of the critical words (hammer) that followed the verb gap was manipulated. Relative to the plausible control (preceded by took), ERPs to the critical word in the implausible condition (preceded by sanded) showed an N400, followed by a positivity (P600). ERPs to determiners following gapped verbs showed a negativity between 100 and 300 ms, and a positivity between 300 and 500 ms compared to determiners in non-gapping constructions. These results suggest that the sentence processor recognizes a verb gap and reconstructs the verb information at the earliest possible occasion, and that this reconstruction process is different from the reconstruction of antecedents in other filler-gap constructions (e.g., WH gaps). KW - cognition KW - comprehension KW - ellipsis KW - erp KW - language KW - n400 KW - p600 KW - vision AU - Kaan, Edith AU - Wijnen, Frank AU - Swaab, Tamara PY - 2004/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2004.02.004 ER -