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19330528

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-25
pubmed:abstractText
We investigated the processing of violations of the verb position in Dutch, in a group of healthy subjects, by measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) through electroencephalography (EEG). In Dutch, the base position of the verb is clause final, but in matrix clauses, the finite verb is in second position, a construction known as Verb Second. In embedded clauses, the finite verb remains in its clause-final base position. The results show that ungrammatical placement of finite verbs in second position in embedded clauses yields a P600 response, which suggests that the parser treats this type of violation as a clear syntactic anomaly. This is in contrast to accounts by which a general preference for subject-verb-object word order in languages like Dutch is reflected by an absence of P600 effects in response to violations of Verb Second.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1573-6555
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
201-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
The electrophysiological manifestation of Dutch Verb Second violations.
pubmed:affiliation
Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3066, USA. d-ouden@northwestern.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't