Word accents and morphology - ERPs of Swedish word processing

摘要: Results indicating that high stem tones realizing word accents activate a certain class of suffixes in online processing Central Swedish are presented. This supports the view accent induced onto stems by particular rather than being associated with words mental lexicon. Using event-related potentials, effects mismatch between and inflectional were compared mismatches suffix terms declension class. Declensionally incorrect yielded an increase N400, problems lexical retrieval, as well P600 effect, showing reanalysis. Both declensionally correct tone-inducing (Accent 2) combined mismatching low tone 1) on produced effects, but did not N400. Suffixes usually co-occurring Accent 1 yield any realized nonmatching 2, suggesting is default accent, lacking association suffix. High 2 also early anterior positivity, interpreted P200 effect reflecting preattentive tone.