The Processing of Grammatical Gender Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: ERP Evidence in Favor of a Single Route

Autor/inn/en	de Resende, Natália Carolina Alencar; Mota, Mailce Borges; Seuren, Pieter
Titel	The Processing of Grammatical Gender Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: ERP Evidence in Favor of a Single Route
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48 (2019) 1, S.181-198 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (de Resende, Natália Carolina Alencar) ORCID (Mota, Mailce Borges)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-018-9598-z
Schlagwörter	Grammar; Portuguese; Diagnostic Tests; Language Processing; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Native Speakers; Form Classes (Languages); Foreign Countries; Sentences; Psycholinguistics; Nouns; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Portugiesischunterricht; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Sprachverarbeitung; Muttersprachler; Analytischer Sprachbau; Ausland; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Psycholinguistik; Brasilien
Abstract	The present study used event-related potentials to investigate whether the processing of grammatical gender agreement involving gender regular and irregular forms recruit the same or distinct neurocognitive mechanisms and whether different grammatical gender agreement conditions elicit the same or diverse ERP signals. Native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese read sentences containing congruent and incongruent grammatical gender agreement between a determiner and a regular or an irregular form (condition 1) and between a regular or an irregular form and an adjective (condition 2). However, in condition 2, trials with incongruent regular forms elicited more positive ongoing waveforms than trial with incongruent irregular forms. We found a biphasic LAN/P600 effect for gender agreement violation involving regular and irregular forms in both conditions. Our findings suggest that gender agreement between determiner and nouns recruits the same neurocognitive mechanisms regardless of the nouns' form and that, depending on the grammatical class of the words involved in gender agreement, differences in ERP signals can emerge. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01