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The Role of Animacy and Thematic Relationships in Processing Active English Sentences: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials
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Kuperberg, Gina R.; Kreher, Donna A.; Sitnikova, Tatiana; Caplan, David N.; Holcomb, Phillip J. – Brain and Language, 2007
Recent event-related potential studies report a P600 effect to incongruous verbs preceded by semantically associated inanimate noun-phrase (NP) arguments, e.g., "eat" in "At breakfast the eggs would eat...". This P600 effect may reflect the processing cost incurred when semantic-thematic relationships between critical verbs and their preceding NP…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Sentences, Language Patterns