An ERP Investigation of Binding and Coreference  

Oleh:

Harris, Tony ; Wexler, Ken ; Holcomb, Phillip

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 75 no. 3 (2000), page 313-346.
Topik: event-related potentials; ERP; binding; syntax; pragmatics; P600; reflexive; coreference; argument
Fulltext: 75_03_Harris.pdf (167.32KB)

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This study examines the nature of violations in processing one class of binding construction, namely those involving reflexives and their antecedents. When arguments of verbs appear at the point where a syntactic violation is detected, a centroparietal positivity occurs, peaking at 600 ms after the presentation of the stimulus (P600), as is consistent with other types of syntactic anomalies. However, nonarguments in similar sentences fail to elicit the same response. For example, the reflexive in John’s brothers like himself is in an argument position and elicits the P600 when compared to its grammatical counterpart. The nonargument, participating in the same type of mismatch, John’s brothers like Bill and himself, does not elicit the same positivity. This provides evidence that there are two processes involved in parsing this binding construction, one syntactic and another as yet unidentified, perhaps involving meaning or pragmatics.

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