Processing polarity: ERP evidence for differences between positive and negative polarity.

Abstract:

:The goal of the present study was to investigate event-related potential (ERP) responses to Dutch negative and positive polarity adverbs of degree presented in licensed and unlicensed contexts with negative and affirmative particles directly preceding the polarity item. To control for effects of the processing of negation as such, neutral adverbs were also presented in negative and affirmative contexts. The results did not show any significant effect of negation for the non-polar adverbs, allowing context effects for polarity items to be interpreted as being due to the appropriateness of the context. Negative polarity violations elicited an N400 response that might reflect the lack of semantic congruity of the negative polarity item in an affirmative context. In contrast, processing positive polarity items in context of negation resulted in a positive effect resembling the P600, which may be considered as a marker of a different sort of integration difficulty caused by violation of licensing conditions and/or a search for a licensor in the wider discourse context. The study presented here is the first to show an unambiguous dissociation between responses to negative and positive polarity violations. This dissociation argues for different mechanisms underlying the processing of these two types of polarity; we propose that positive polarity items are sensitive to wider discourse context, while negative polarity items are more sensitive to local lexical context.

journal_name

Neuropsychologia

journal_title

Neuropsychologia

authors

Yurchenko A,den Ouden DB,Hoeksema J,Dragoy O,Hoeks JC,Stowe LA

doi

10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.028

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-01-01 00:00:00

pages

132-41

issue

1

eissn

0028-3932

issn

1873-3514

pii

S0028-3932(12)00466-6

journal_volume

51

pub_type

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