University of Groningen Auditory and visual ERP correlates of gender agreement processing in Dutch and Italian Popov, Srdan

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Auditory and visual ERP correlates of gender agreement processing in Dutch and Italian

Popov, Srdan

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Auditory and Visual ERP Correlates of Gender Agreement Processing in Dutch and Italian

van Srđan Popov

1. Gender disagreement is processed at the syntactic level, thereby eliciting syntactically-related ERP components, such as the P600 and occasionally the LAN.

This dissertation 2. The size of the P600 effect is strictly related to the complexity of the repair/

reanalysis mechanism.

This dissertation 3. Number and gender disagreement are processed identically until the stage

of structural reanalysis, in which increased repair demand is reflected in a larger P600 effect in number disagreement than gender disagreement.

This dissertation (Chapter 4 & 5) 4. Semantic gender, just like syntactic gender, is first processed at the syntactic

level, which is consistent with the presence of the LAN and the absence of the N400 component.

This dissertation (Chapter 2) 5. Disagreement processing does not always elicit the LAN, with presentation

modality being one of the factors for the volatile nature of the LAN.

This dissertation (Chapters 4 & 5) 6. Component characteristics, such as onset time and scalp distribution,

depend on presentation modality.

This dissertation 7. Auditory presentation of linguistic material, in contrast to visual presentation,

increases the temporal resolution of the experiment. This dissertation (Chapters 3 & 5)

8. There’s nothing in this universe that can’t be explained. Eventually.

House MD 9. Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better

rule. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations