TY  - GEN
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Paulmann, Silke
A1  - Budd, Mary-Jane
A1  - Barry, Christopher
T1  - Morphological encoding beyond slots and fillers
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - One important organizational property of morphology is competition. Different means of expression are in conflict with each other for encoding the same grammatical function. In the current study, we examined the nature of this control mechanism by testing the formation of comparative adjectives in English during language production. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during cued silent production, the first study of this kind for comparative adjective formation. We specifically examined the ERP correlates of producing synthetic relative to analytic comparatives, e.g. angriervs. more angry. A frontal, bilaterally distributed, enhanced negative-going waveform for analytic comparatives (vis-a-vis synthetic ones) emerged approximately 300ms after the (silent) production cue. We argue that this ERP effect reflects a control mechanism that constrains grammatically-based computational processes (viz. more comparative formation). We also address the possibility that this particular ERP effect may belong to a family of previously observed negativities reflecting cognitive control monitoring, rather than morphological encoding processes per se.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 550 
KW  - event-related potentials
KW  - brain potentials
KW  - language production
KW  - word production
KW  - past-tense
KW  - electrophysiological evidence
KW  - cognitive control
KW  - single word
KW  - time-course
KW  - adjectives
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42648
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426481
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 550
ER  -