Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms

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Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms. / Schremm, Andrea; Novén, Mikael; Horne, Merle; Roll, Mikael.

In: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Vol. 51, 2019, p. 76-83.

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Schremm, A, Novén, M, Horne, M & Roll, M 2019, 'Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms', Journal of Neurolinguistics, vol. 51, pp. 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.01.006

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Schremm, A., Novén, M., Horne, M., & Roll, M. (2019). Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.01.006

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Schremm A, Novén M, Horne M, Roll M. Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 2019;51:76-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.01.006

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Schremm, Andrea ; Novén, Mikael ; Horne, Merle ; Roll, Mikael. / Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms. In: Journal of Neurolinguistics. 2019 ; Vol. 51. pp. 76-83.

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title = "Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms",
abstract = "The present electrophysiological study investigated irregular versus regular verb form processing in Swedish during reading. In line with previous results from other languages, overregularized verbs, i.e. incorrect irregular stem + regular past tense suffix combinations (e.g. *stj{\"a}l + de {\textquoteleft}steal + past tense{\textquoteright}), elicited a left-lateralized negativity (LAN) relative to correct irregulars (stal {\textquoteleft}stole{\textquoteright}), suggesting rule-based decomposition of regularly inflected words. Lack of a similar effect for misapplication of the irregular stem formation pattern on regular verbs (e.g. *l{\"o}ft {\textquoteleft}lifted{\textquoteright} instead of lyfte) suggests the involvement of different processing mechanisms, possibly whole word access, for irregular items, at least to some degree. A P600 showing reprocessing was seen for all incorrect forms. The results add cross-linguistic support for morphological decomposition in the verbal inflection of a language where results from previous neurolinguistic studies of nominal inflection have only suggested the use of full-form access to words.",
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AB - The present electrophysiological study investigated irregular versus regular verb form processing in Swedish during reading. In line with previous results from other languages, overregularized verbs, i.e. incorrect irregular stem + regular past tense suffix combinations (e.g. *stjäl + de ‘steal + past tense’), elicited a left-lateralized negativity (LAN) relative to correct irregulars (stal ‘stole’), suggesting rule-based decomposition of regularly inflected words. Lack of a similar effect for misapplication of the irregular stem formation pattern on regular verbs (e.g. *löft ‘lifted’ instead of lyfte) suggests the involvement of different processing mechanisms, possibly whole word access, for irregular items, at least to some degree. A P600 showing reprocessing was seen for all incorrect forms. The results add cross-linguistic support for morphological decomposition in the verbal inflection of a language where results from previous neurolinguistic studies of nominal inflection have only suggested the use of full-form access to words.

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