Jurnal Internasional Bahasa

Sage Publication : Language and Speech

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The paper reports on a perception experiment in German that investigated the neuro-cognitive
processing of information structural concepts and their prosodic marking using event-related
brain potentials (ERPs). Experimental conditions controlled the information status (given vs. new)
of referring and non-referring target expressions (nouns vs. adjectives) and were elicited via
context sentences, which did not – unlike most previous ERP studies in the field – trigger an
explicit focus expectation. Target utterances displayed prosodic realizations of the critical words
which differed in accent position and accent type. Electrophysiological results showed an effect of
information status, maximally distributed over posterior sites, displaying a biphasic N400 - Late
Positivity pattern for new information. We claim that this pattern reflects increased processing
demands associated with new information, with the N400 indicating enhanced costs from linking
information with the previous discourse and the Late Positivity indicating the listener’s effort
to update his/her discourse model. The prosodic manipulation registered more pronounced
effects over anterior regions and revealed an enhanced negativity followed by a Late Positivity for
deaccentuation, probably also reflecting costs from discourse linking and updating respectively.
The data further lend indirect support for the idea that givenness applies not only to referents but
also to non-referential expressions (‘lexical givenness’).

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EJ3.7

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New York : Sage Publication., 2012

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EJ3.7

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