Perception and Bias in the Processing of Compound versus Phrasal Stress: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
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Previous research using picture/word matching tasks has demonstrated a tendency to incorrectly interpret phrasally stressed strings as compounds. Using event-related potentials, we sought to determine whether this pattern stems from poor perceptual sensitivity to the compound/phrasal stress distinction, or from a post-perceptual bias in behavioral response selection. A secondary aim was to gain insight into the role played by contrastive stress patterns in online sentence comprehension. The behavioral results replicated previous findings of a preference for compounds, but the electrophysiological data suggested a robust sensitivity to both stress patterns. When incongruent with the context, both compound and phrasal stress elicited a sustained left-lateralized negativity. Moreover, incongruent compound stress elicited a centro-parietal negativity (N400), while incongruent phrasal stress elicited a late posterior positivity (P600). We conclude that the previous findings of a preference for compounds are due to response selection bias, and not a lack of perceptual sensitivity. The present results complement previous evidence for the immediate use of meter in semantic processing, as well as evidence for late interactions between prosodic and syntactic information.
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- Authors
- McCauley, S. M., Hestvik, A., & Vogel, I.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- University of Delaware (US)
- Venue
- Language and Speech
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-02-22
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 23-44
- ISSN
- 0023-8309 (ISSN-L)
- 1756-6053
- OpenAlex
- W2127831866
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language and Speech (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- combined stress, phrasal stress, prosody, N400, P600, sentence comprehension, prosody-syntax interaction, meter, event-related potentials
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Auditory Cortex, Brain Mapping, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Female, Humans, Male, Parietal Lobe, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Speech Perception, Event-Related Potentials, P300, Young Adult
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