TY  - JOUR
A1  - Havas, Viktoria
A1  - Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Brain potentials for derivational morphology an ERP study of deadjectival nominalizations in Spanish
T2  - Brain & language : a journal of the neurobiology of language
N2  - This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and incorrectly formed derived words were presented in sentence contexts. The first experiment indicated productivity differences between the different nominalization processes in Spanish. The second experiment yielded a pattern of ERP responses that differed from both the familiar lexical-semantic and grammatical ERP effects. Violations of derivational morphology elicited an increased N400 component plus a late positivity (P600), unlike gender-agreement violations, which produced the biphasic LAN/P600 ERP pattern known from previous studies of morpho-syntactic violations. We conclude that the recognition of derived word forms engages both word-level (lexical-semantic) and decompositional (morpheme-based) processes.
KW  - Event-related brain potentials
KW  - N400
KW  - P600
KW  - Derivational morphology
KW  - Spanish
Y1  - 2012
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36059
SN  - 0093-934X
VL  - 120
IS  - 3
SP  - 332
EP  - 344
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -