On the interplay of object animacy and verb type during sentence comprehension in German
ERP evidence from the processing of transitive dative and accusative constructions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4775362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Czypionka (0000-0003-2247-0110, University of Konstanz, corresponding author), Krzysztof Spałek (0000-0001-7641-7310, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Katharina Spalek, Isabell Wartenburger (0000-0001-5116-4441, University of Potsdam), Manfred Krifka (0000-0002-9610-8352, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2017-0031 |
| OpenAlex | W2768240599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 47 |
Comprehension of transitive sentences relies on different kinds of information, like word order, case marking, and animacy contrasts between arguments. When no formal cues like case marking or number congruency are available, a contrast in animacy helps the parser to decide which argument is the grammatical subject and which the object. Processing costs are enhanced when neither formal cues nor animacy contrasts are available in a transitive sentence. We present an ERP study on the comprehension of grammatical transitive German sentences, manipulating animacy contrasts between subjects and objects as well as the verbal case marking pattern. Our study shows strong object animacy effects even in the absence of violations, and in addition suggests that this effect of object animacy is modulated by the verbal case marking pattern
Animacy · Argument (complex analysis) · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Dative case · German · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Sentence · Sentence processing · Transitive relation · Verb · Word order · Computer Science · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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The extended argument dependency model
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Syntactic persistence in language production
Neural mechanisms of language comprehension
Semantic Influences On Parsing
Conceptual accessibility and syntactic structure in sentence formulation
Getting real about Semantic Illusions
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Expectation-based syntactic comprehension
Differential Object Marking in Romance and Beyond
The independence of combinatory semantic processing
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Remarks on the projection of dative arguments in German
Learning Constraint Subhierarchies
Psych-verbs and ?-theory
English Verb Classes and Alternations
Case and Reanalysis
Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly
Task sensitivity of animacy effects
Morphological underspecification meets oblique case
Animacy and asymmetries in differential case marking
On incremental interpretation
Semantics of case
Lexical Case, Inherent Case, and Argument Structure
Word order in German
What markedness marks
Contributions of animacy to grammatical function assignment and word order during production
Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |