The Electrophysiological Manifestation of Dutch Verb Second Violations  

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Ouden, Dirk-Bart Den ; Bastiaanse, Roelien

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Psycholinguistics Research =>ada di SpringerLink 1972(vol.1) - Mutakhir; PROQUEST vol. 38 no. 3 (Jun. 2009), page 201-219.
Topik: Verb Second · Verbs · ERP · P600 · Dutch · Syntax
Fulltext: vol. 38 issue 3 June 2009. p. 201 - 219.pdf (493.65KB)

Isi artikel

We investigated the processing of violations of the verb position in Dutch, in a group of healthy subjects, by measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) through electroencephalography (EEG). In Dutch, the base position of the verb is clause final, but in matrix clauses, the finite verb is in second position, a construction known as Verb Second. In embedded clauses, the finite verb remains in its clause-final base position. The results show that ungrammatical placement of finite verbs in second position in embedded clauses yields a P600 response, which suggests that the parser treats this type of violation as a clear syntactic anomaly. This is in contrast to accounts bywhich a general preference for subject–verb–object word order in languages like Dutch is reflected by an absence of P600 effects in response to violations of Verb Second.

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