An ERP Study on the Processing of Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Gender Agreement in Punjabi

• Published in: Journal of psycholinguistic research Vol. 53; no. 4; p. 59
• Main Authors: Gulati, Mahima, Muralikrishnan, R., Choudhary, Kamal Kumar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Brain; Brain - physiology; Brain research; Cognitive Psychology; Departments; Electroencephalography; Event-related potentials; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Female; Gender; Grammatical agreement; Grammatical gender; Grammatical subject; Humans; Indo-Aryan languages; Language; Language Processing; Male; Motor Vehicles; Nouns; Parsing; Periodicals; Psycholinguistics; Psychology; Punjabi language; Reading; Semitic Languages; Sentences; Syntax; Verbs; Word order; Young Adult; Subject-agreement; Language comprehension; Object-agreement; Event-related brain potential; P600; Gender; Punjabi

This study was conducted with the aim of exploring the general parsing mechanisms involved in processing different kinds of dependency relations, namely verb agreement with subjects versus objects in Punjabi, an SOV Indo-Aryan language. Event related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded as twenty-f...