Human brain potentials to violations in morphologically complex Italian words

Groß, Matthias; Say, Tessa; Kleingers, Michael; Clahsen, Harald; Münte, Thomas F.

doi:10.1016/s0304-3940(97)00971-3

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“…Prior work has indicated that, for letter strings presented in isolation, N400 amplitude is a function of the lexical status of the string and word frequency. However, in the present study, N400 amplitude was entirely a function of the morphological content of the letter string (see also [12,13]). Indeed, the bound-stem non-words presented here had zero frequency; yet, these letter strings elicited a brain response that was nearly identical to that elicited by frequently occurring words.…”

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“…Conversely, if readers decompose the words and non-words into their constituent morphemes, and if these morphemes are represented in the mental lexicon, then the words and non-words might elicit similar amplitude N400s; both the words and non-words are made up of morphemes with the same frequency. The notion that certain types of morphologically complex nonwords might elicit word-like brain responses gains support from two recent ERP studies [12,13]. Gross and colleagues, for example, found that when verb stems in Italian were combined with affixes from the wrong verb class, the resulting non-words elicited brain potentials that were indistinguishable from those elicited by completely wellformed inflected verbs [13].…”

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“…The notion that certain types of morphologically complex nonwords might elicit word-like brain responses gains support from two recent ERP studies [12,13]. Gross and colleagues, for example, found that when verb stems in Italian were combined with affixes from the wrong verb class, the resulting non-words elicited brain potentials that were indistinguishable from those elicited by completely wellformed inflected verbs [13].…”

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Morphological decomposition involving non-productive morphemes: ERP evidence

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It is generally believed that readers decompose a complex word into its constituent morphemes only when those morphemes participate productively in word formation. Here we recorded eventrelated potentials (ERPs) to words (e.g. mu¥er, receive), nonwords containing no morphemes (e.g. £ermuf), and non-words containing a pre¢x and a non-productive bound stem (e.g. in-ceive). Prior work has shown that pronounceable non-words elicit larger-amplitude N400 components than words. If readers treat non-words containing non-productive morphemes as unanalyzed wholes, then these non-words should elicit larger N400 s than matched words. We report here, however, that bound-stem nonwords elicit a brain response highly similar to that elicited by real words. This ¢nding suggests that morphological decomposition and representation extend to non-productive morphemes.

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Morphological decomposition involving non-productive morphemes: ERP evidence

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“…A similar result was found using the same design with the German plural system (Weyerts, Penke, Dohrn, Clahsen, & Münte, 1997), in which -s is argued to be the default form (despite being a very small minority) while -en, -e, -er, and no change are all more common (with the latter three often involving umlauting of the stem). 2 Similar experiments have been conducted in Italian (Gross, Say, Kleingers, Clahsen, & Münte, 1998), Catalan (Rodríguez-Fornells, Clahsen, Lleó, Zaake, & Münte, 2001, and English (Morris & Holcomb, 2005), although the results of these latter studies were not as clear cut.…”

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Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: Evidence from event-related potentials

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Larsen

Davies³

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Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Neuropsychological dissociations between regular and irregular English past-tense morphology have been reported using a lexical-decision task in which past-tense primes immediately precede present-tense targets. We present N400 event-related potential data from healthy participants using the same design. Both regular and irregular past-tense forms primed corresponding present-tense forms, but with a longer duration for irregular verbs. Phonological control conditions suggested that differences in formal overlap between prime and target contributes to, but does not account for this difference, suggesting a link between irregular morphology and semantics. Further analysis, dividing the irregular verbs into two categories (weak irregular and strong) revealed that priming for strong verbs was reliably stronger than that for weak irregular and regular verbs, which were statistically indistinguishable from one another. We argue that although we observe a regular-irregular dissociation, the nature of this dissociation is more consistent with single-than with dual-system models of inflectional morphology.

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“…The majority of studies examining LAN effects have related them to syntactic violations (see also Hagoort, Wassenaar, & Brown, 2003;Coulson, King, & Kutas, 1998;Friederici, Hahne, & Mecklinger, 1996;Friederici, 1995;Münte, Heinze, & Mangun, 1993), as they occur, for instance, for violations of word-category constraints (Friederici, Gunter, Hahne, & Mauth, 2004;Friederici et al, 1996;Münte et al, 1993). Apart from these syntactically caused LANs, several studies reported LAN effects for the misapplication of regular morphological rules (Rodriguez-Fornells, Clahsen, Lleo, Zaake, & Münte, 2001;Gross, Say, Kleingers, Clahsen, & Münte, 1998;Penke et al, 1997;Weyerts, Penke, Dohrn, Clahsen, & Münte, 1997).…”

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The Nature of Anterior Negativities Caused by Misapplications of Morphological Rules

Krott

Baayen

Hagoort

2006

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract& This study investigates functional interpretations of left anterior negativities (LANs), a language-related electroencephalogram effect that has been found for syntactic and morphological violations. We focus on three possible interpretations of LANs caused by the replacement of irregular affixes with regular affixes: misapplication of morphological rules, mismatch of the presented form with analogy-based expectations, and mismatch of the presented form with stored representations. Event-related brain potentials were recorded during the visual presentation of existing and novel Dutch compounds. Existing compounds contained correct or replaced interfixes (dame + s + salons > damessalons vs. *dame + n + salons >

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Human brain potentials to violations in morphologically complex Italian words

Cited by 67 publications

References 19 publications

Morphological decomposition involving non-productive morphemes: ERP evidence

Morphological decomposition involving non-productive morphemes: ERP evidence

Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: Evidence from event-related potentials

The Nature of Anterior Negativities Caused by Misapplications of Morphological Rules

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