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Electrophysiological Evidence for Semantic and Syntactic Processing in Croatian

The results of two ERP experiments with semantic and syntactic violations in Croatian sentences will be presented. In the first experiment subjects were presented with semantically correct and semantically incorrect sentences such as "The dog ate a question." In the second experiment there was a syntactic violation in the target stimuli - the target word violated the agreement in gender, e.g. "The nurse (f) is nice (m)." The results were similar to the results in similar experiments in other languages. The N400 component was observed in sentences with semantic violation while both left anterior negativity (LAN) and P600 was elicited in sentences with agreement error. In comparison to other languages the N400 component showed delayed latency preceded by another negative wave that could reflect morphosyntactic processing of the target word. Finally, Croatian specific formal features such as aspect will be discussed in light of finding electrophysiological evidence in favor of particular models of language comprehension.

syntactic and semantic processing; ERP; N400; P600

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