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Chapter 6 - Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension IV: ERP Studies with Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2023

Masatoshi Koizumi
Affiliation:
Tohoku University, Japan
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Chapter 6 reports on an ERP experiment with a picture–sentence matching task, in which a picture was presented before the corresponding sentence. The target sentences used in this experiment were the same as those used in the experiment reported in Chapter 5, i.e., transitive sentences with thematically reversible agents and patients, arranged into four word orders: VOS, VSO, SVO, and OVS. The results of this experiment also demonstrated that SVO elicited a P600 compared to VOS, and that VSO elicited a similar posterior positivity, relative to VOS. The results of the two ERP experiments combined clearly indicate that VOS is the syntactically simplest and easiest-to-process word order of the grammatically possible ones in Kaqchikel, which is in line with our previous findings, described in Chapters 3 and 4. In short, Chapters 3 to 6 present data showing that a VOS preference was observed in Kaqchikel sentence comprehension, which provides empirical support for the IGV.

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Constituent Order in Language and Thought
A Case Study in Field-Based Psycholinguistics
, pp. 61 - 65
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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