Objects, events and "to be" verbs in Spanish--an ERP study of the syntax-semantics interface.

Abstract:

:In Spanish, objects and events at subject position constrain the selection of different forms of the auxiliary verb "to be": locative predicates about objects require "estar en", while those relating to events require "ser en", both translatable as "to be in". Subjective ratings showed that while the "object+ser+en" is considered as incorrect, the "event+estar+en" combination is also perceived as unacceptable but to a lesser degree. In an ERP study, we evaluated the impact of a purely semantic distinction (object versus events) on the subsequent processing of these auxiliary verbs followed by locatives in Spanish. For the "ser en" predicate, the P600 component was larger when the subject was an object than when it was an event. This P600 effect is consistent with an online repair of the defining predicate when it does not fit with the adequate semantic properties of the subject. On the other hand, for the "estar en" predicate, event subjects when compared to object subjects showed more positive ongoing amplitudes between 280 and 380 ms after the presentation of the "en" preposition, followed by a longer positive wave starting around 400 ms and lasting until 700 ms after the presentation of the following determiner, with central and frontal scalp distributions respectively. Thus, the different subject-predicate combinations, depending on the semantic features of the subjects, triggered syntactic reparatory processes at a structural level. These findings are consistent with an incremental interpretation of sentence meaning based on the interaction between syntactic and semantic information.

journal_name

Brain Lang

journal_title

Brain and language

authors

Leone-Fernandez B,Molinaro N,Carreiras M,Barber HA

doi

10.1016/j.bandl.2010.12.006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-02-01 00:00:00

pages

127-34

issue

2

eissn

0093-934X

issn

1090-2155

pii

S0093-934X(10)00203-8

journal_volume

120

pub_type

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