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- Title
Stem Tones Pre-activate Suffixes in the Brain.
- Authors
Söderström, Pelle; Horne, Merle; Roll, Mikael
- Abstract
Results from the present event-related potentials (ERP) study show that tones on Swedish word stems can rapidly pre-activate upcoming suffixes, even when the word stem does not carry any lexical meaning. Results also show that listeners are able to rapidly restore suffixes which are replaced with a cough. Accuracy in restoring suffixes correlated positively with the amplitude of an anterior negative ERP elicited by stem tones. This effect is proposed to reflect suffix pre-activation. Suffixes that were cued by an incorrect tone elicited a left-anterior negativity and a P600, suggesting that the correct processing of the suffix is crucially tied to the activation of the preceding validly associated tone.
- Subjects
TONE (Phonetics); WORD stems (Linguistics); SPEECH perception; SWEDISH language; EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology); SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar)
- Publication
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017, Vol 46, Issue 2, p271
- ISSN
0090-6905
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10936-016-9434-2