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Arild Hestvik1, Nathan Maxfield, Richard G Schwartz

  • 1Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, City University of New York, NY 10016, USA. ahestvik@gc.cuny.edu

Brain and Language
|September 15, 2006
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This study reveals that sentence comprehension involves building syntactic structures before semantic integration. Brain responses show that filling grammatical gaps relies on predicted empty categories, not direct argument structure links.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • The mechanism of sentence comprehension, specifically gap-filling, remains debated.
  • It is unclear if gap-filling uses empty categories (traces) or direct argument structure relations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the temporal and spatial brain responses during ungrammatically filled gaps.
  • To determine if gap-filling is mediated by syntactic structure building or argument structure operations.

Main Methods:

  • Event-related potentials (ERP) study utilizing a violation paradigm.
  • Analysis of brain responses to ungrammatically filled gaps in sentences.

Main Results:

  • The earliest brain response observed was an early left anterior negativity (eLAN).

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  • eLAN reflects early syntactic structure building, preceding semantic and argument structure processes.

    • Conclusions:

    • Gap-filling in sentence comprehension is mediated by structurally predicted empty categories.
    • This process occurs before semantic integration and argument structure satisfaction.