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Brain potentials during language production in children and adults - an ERP study of the English past tense
- The current study examines the neural correlates of 8-to-12-year-old children and adults producing inflected word forms, specifically regular vs. irregular past-tense forms in English, using a silent production paradigm. ERPs were time-locked to a visual cue for silent production of either a regular or irregular past-tense form or a 3rd person singular present tense form of a given verb (e.g., walked/sang vs. walks/sings). Subsequently, another visual stimulus cued participants for an overt vocalization of their response. ERP results for the adult group revealed a negativity 300-450 ms after the silent-production cue for regular compared to irregular past-tense forms. There was no difference in the present form condition. Children's brain potentials revealed developmental changes, with the older children demonstrating more adult-like ERP responses than the younger ones. We interpret the observed ERP responses as reflecting combinatorial processing involved in regular (but not irregular) past-tense formation.
Author details: | Mary-Jane BuddORCiD, Silke Paulmann, Christopher Barry, Harald ClahsenORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2012.12.010 |
ISSN: | 0093-934X |
ISSN: | 1090-2155 |
Title of parent work (English): | Brain & language : a journal of the neurobiology of language |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | San Diego |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2013 |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | Children; ERP; Morphology; Past tense; Production |
Volume: | 127 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 11 |
First page: | 345 |
Last Page: | 355 |
Funding institution: | Leverhulme Trust [F/00213/U] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |