ERP signatures of subject–verb agreement in L2 learning

• Published in: Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 161 - 174
• Main Authors: CHEN, LANG, SHU, HUA, LIU, YOUYI, ZHAO, JINGJING, LI, PING
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2007
• Subjects: Agreement; Behavior Patterns; Bilingual Students; Bilingualism; Brain research; Chinese; Chinese languages; Cognition & reasoning; Dyslexia; English (Second Language); English as a Second Language Learning; English Language Learners; Event-related potentials; Evoked Responses; Foreign Countries; Form Classes (Languages); Grammar; Grammatical agreement; Grammatical subject; Grammaticality; Indo European Languages; Language; Language Processing; Linguistic Interference; Listening comprehension; Monolingualism; Morphological Processing; Morphology; Morphology (Languages); Morphosyntax; Native Speakers; Natural Sciences; Neurosciences; Phrase Structure; Psychological Patterns; Resistance (Psychology); Romance Languages; Second language learning; Semantics; Semiotics; Sentences; Studies; Syntactic features; Syntactic Processing; Verbs; Violations

In this study we examined ERP (event-related-potential) responses in the morphosyntactic processing of subject–verb agreements by L2 Chinese learners of English. Fifteen proficient L2 learners and fifteen native English speakers were presented with English sentences that varied in the grammaticality...