TY - JOUR
T1 - Derivational morphology approached with event-related potentials
AU - Bölte, J.
AU - Jansma-Schmitt, B.M.
AU - Zilverstand, A.K.
AU - Zwitserlood, P.
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - We investigated the processing of derived adjectives in German using event-related potentials (ERPs). ERPs were registered to existing adjectives ( freundlich , ?friendly?), to morphologically complex pseudowords that were synonymous to an existing adjective and thus interpretable (* freundhaft ), and to complex pseudowords that were structurally and semantically anomalous (* freundbar ). Stimuli were embedded in sentence contexts, displayed word by word. An ERP effect with a left-frontal maximum was observed around 450?500 ms after stimulus onset. In this window, both pseudoword types differed from existing adjectives. We interpret this data pattern as a LAN, reflecting structural problems due to morphological parsing, a process that is distinct from semantic processing.
AB - We investigated the processing of derived adjectives in German using event-related potentials (ERPs). ERPs were registered to existing adjectives ( freundlich , ?friendly?), to morphologically complex pseudowords that were synonymous to an existing adjective and thus interpretable (* freundhaft ), and to complex pseudowords that were structurally and semantically anomalous (* freundbar ). Stimuli were embedded in sentence contexts, displayed word by word. An ERP effect with a left-frontal maximum was observed around 450?500 ms after stimulus onset. In this window, both pseudoword types differed from existing adjectives. We interpret this data pattern as a LAN, reflecting structural problems due to morphological parsing, a process that is distinct from semantic processing.
U2 - 10.1075/ml.4.3.02bol
DO - 10.1075/ml.4.3.02bol
M3 - Article
SN - 1871-1340
VL - 4
SP - 336
EP - 353
JO - The mental lexicon
JF - The mental lexicon
IS - 3
ER -