32.684, Books: Storage and processing of Dutch morphological information: Labbé Grunberg

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:56:50
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Storage and processing of Dutch morphological information: Labbé Grunberg

 


Title: Storage and processing of Dutch morphological information 
Subtitle: Early electrophysiological responses to lexical, morphological and
syntactic information 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/storage-and-processing-of-dutch-morphological-information 


Author: Hernán Augusto Labbé Grunberg

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933448 Pages: 192 Price: Europe EURO 31


Abstract:

By using a novel experimental paradigm to tackle an old, fundamental question
in psycholinguistics, the work in this dissertation aims at shedding new light
on how humans store and process simple and complex words: electrophysiological
responses elicited by native Dutch speakers are compared across linguistic
contexts of monomorphemic, inflectional and derivational word processing, as
well as syntactic agreement in gender and number. What seems like a
straightforward experiment with clear predictions for each competing
hypothesis results in a complex set of results that answers some of the
questions posed, and raises a considerable number of new questions in the
field.

The evoked responses are assumed, based on previously published results in
languages like Finnish, German and English, to be sensitive to the strength of
consolidation of specific linguistic memory traces, such that more
consolidated memory traces would result in larger responses. This basic
assumption of how the evoked neural response works is the bases for all the
predictions regarding the storage and processing of simple and morphologically
complex words, as well as words embedded in syntactic agreement contexts.
Although statistical significance is seldom achieved, the results of these
experiments shows that there is indeed a systematic difference in the
responses evoked by simple and morphologically complex words. This, in turn,
suggests that these two types of words engage different types of
neurocognitive mechanisms for their storage in memory and their processing
during language comprehension.

Despite the differences between simple and complex words observed in the
studies of this book, the sensitivity of the neurophysiological response to
the strength of consolidation of lexical memory traces is challenged in
numerous ways in this study. This study shows a reversed surface-form
frequency effect with singular and plural nouns and a lack of sensitivity to
the syntactic agreement contexts of words. Both results challenge the basic
assumptions behind the experimental paradigm used and raise the question of
which cognitive operation underlie the responses evoked by this paradigm.
Overall, these experiments show that although there are differences between
simple and morphologically complex in isolation or in syntactic contexts, more
research is needed to know what causes these differences at the neurocognitive
level.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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