Native and Non-Native Speakers' Brain Responses to Filled Indirect Object Gaps

Autor/inn/en	Jessen, Anna; Festman, Julia; Boxell, Oliver; Felser, Claudia
Titel	Native and Non-Native Speakers' Brain Responses to Filled Indirect Object Gaps
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46 (2017) 5, S.1319-1338 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Felser, Claudia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-017-9496-9
Schlagwörter	Native Speakers; English; Non English Speaking; Comparative Analysis; Brain; Responses; Cognitive Processes; German; Verbs; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Sentences; Comprehension; Psycholinguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Muttersprachler; English language; Englisch; Gehirn; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Deutscher; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Verstehen; Verständnis; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	We examined native and non-native English speakers' processing of indirect object "wh"-dependencies using a filled-gap paradigm while recording event-related potentials (ERPs). The non-native group was comprised of native German-speaking, proficient non-native speakers of English. Both participant groups showed evidence of linking fronted indirect objects to the subcategorizing verb when this was encountered, reflected in an N400 component. Evidence for continued filler activation beyond the verb was seen only in the non-native group, in the shape of a prolonged left-anterior negativity. Both participant groups showed sensitivity to filled indirect object gaps reflected in a P600 response, which was more pronounced and more globally distributed in our non-native group. Taken together, our results indicate that resolving indirect object dependencies is a two-step process in both native and non-native sentence comprehension, with greater processing cost incurred in non-native compared to native comprehension. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01