Great expectations: Specific lexical anticipation influences the processing of spoken language |
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| Authors: | Marte Otten Mante S Nieuwland Jos JA Van Berkum |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA;(3) MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA;(4) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;(5) F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Background Recently several studies have shown that people use contextual information to make predictions about the rest of the sentence
or story as the text unfolds. Using event related potentials (ERPs) we tested whether these on-line predictions are based
on a message-level representation of the discourse or on simple automatic activation by individual words. Subjects heard short
stories that were highly constraining for one specific noun, or stories that were not specifically predictive but contained
the same prime words as the predictive stories. To test whether listeners make specific predictions critical nouns were preceded
by an adjective that was inflected according to, or in contrast with, the gender of the expected noun. |
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