TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jessen, Anna
A1  - Festman, Julia
A1  - Boxell, Oliver
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Native and non-native speakers' brain responses to filled indirect  Object Gaps
T2  - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
N2  - 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.
KW  - Sentence processing
KW  - Wh-movement
KW  - Filled gaps
KW  - ERPs
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52216
SN  - 0090-6905
SN  - 1573-6555
VL  - 46
SP  - 1319
EP  - 1338
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -