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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience of Language

Background:

  • Discourse comprehension involves integrating local phrase meaning with broader referential context.
  • The functional independence of referential processing from local syntactic/semantic analysis remains debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interplay between discourse-level referential processing and local syntactic/semantic processing.
  • To determine if local phrase anomalies affect referential ambiguity resolution.

Main Methods:

  • Two event-related brain potential (ERP) experiments were conducted.
  • Noun phrases (NPs) were manipulated for both syntactic/semantic coherence and referential ambiguity.
  • Brain activity was measured using electroencephalography (EEG).

Main Results:

  • NP incoherence consistently elicited a P600 effect.
  • Referential ambiguity elicited a sustained negativity (Nref) in some participants.
  • Nref effects were absent when NPs were incoherent, even with referential ambiguity.

Conclusions:

  • Referential processing is not functionally independent of local syntactic/semantic processing.
  • Local phrase anomalies can interfere with or block referential ambiguity resolution.
  • Findings challenge models positing separate processing streams for syntax and reference.