Memory traces for tonal language words revealed by auditory event-related potentials

Parsing of Sentences in a Language with

Parsing of Sentences in a Language with Varying Word Order: Word-by-Word Variations of Processing Demands Are Revealed by Event-Related Brain Potentials

✍ Frank Rösler; Thomas Pechmann; Judith Streb; Brigitte Röder; Erwin Hennighausen 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 560 KB

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while native speakers read German sentences in which the order of the sentence elements subject, indirect object, and direct object was systematically varied. All sentences were legal grammatical constructions. Sentences were presented word by word