Why pitch sensitivity matters: Event-related potential evidence of metric and syntactic violation detection among Spanish late learners of German.

Event-related potential (ERP) data in monolingual German speakers have shown that sentential metric expectancy violations elicit a biphasic ERP pattern consisting of an anterior negativity and a posterior positivity (P600). This pattern is comparable to that elicited by syntactic violations. However...

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Main Authors: Maren eSchmidt-Kassow, M. Paula eRoncaglia-Denissen, Sonja A Kotz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
L2
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00131/full