Native and L2 processing of homonyms in sentential context

Article Abstract:

Native and non-native processing of homonyms in sentence whose two most frequent meanings are nouns or a noun and a verb are compared. The event-related brain potential (ERP) data showed that activation of inappropriate meanings had decayed for natives, but not for non-natives, suggesting that non-natives show native-like multiple access at an early processing stage, but differ from the natives later in processing when sentence context information is used to disambiguate meanings.

Science & research, Research, Usage, Second language learning, Homonyms

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The independence of combinatory semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials

Article Abstract:

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are recorded, while participants read sentences, where some of which contained an anomalous word. It is concluded that, at least under certain conditions, semantic information is in control of how words are combined during sentence processing.

Grammar, Comparative and general, Syntax, Linguistic research, Semantic memory

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