Agents Strongly Preferred: ERP Evidence from Natives and Non-Natives Processing Intransitive Sentences in Spanish
dc.contributor.author | Zawiszewski, Adam | |
dc.contributor.author | Martínez de la Hidalga Malla, Gillen | |
dc.contributor.author | Laka Mugarza, Itziar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-05T12:11:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-05T12:11:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Brain Sciences 12(7) : (2022) // Article ID 853 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2076-3425 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/57232 | |
dc.description.abstract | Are non-native speakers able to process their second language in a native-like way? The present study used the Event-Related Potentials’ (ERPs) method to address this issue by focusing (1) on agent vs. agentless intransitive sentences and (2) on person vs. number agreement morphology. For that purpose, native and high proficiency and early non-native speakers of Spanish were tested while processing intransitive sentences containing grammatical and ungrammatical subject–verb agreement. Results reveal greater accuracy in the agent (unergative) condition as compared with the agentless (unaccusative) condition and different ERP patterns for both types of verbs in all participants, suggesting a larger processing cost for the agentless sentences than for the agentive ones. These effects were more pronounced in the native group as compared with the non-native one in the early time window (300–500 ms). Differences between person and number agreement processing were also found at both behavioral and electrophysiological levels, indicating that those morphological features are distinctively processed. Importantly, this pattern of results held for both native and non-native speakers, thus suggesting that native-like competence is attainable given early Age of Acquisition (AoA), frequent use and high proficiency. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (FPI-2017-BES-2016-076456) (G.M.d.l.H.), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2019-104016GB-I00), and the Basque Government (IT1169-19). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/FPI-2017-BES-2016-076456 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICIU/PID2019-104016GB-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | intransitive sentence processing | es_ES |
dc.subject | ERPs | es_ES |
dc.subject | agents | es_ES |
dc.subject | patients | es_ES |
dc.subject | non-native language processing | es_ES |
dc.title | Agents Strongly Preferred: ERP Evidence from Natives and Non-Natives Processing Intransitive Sentences in Spanish | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2022-07-25T16:32:41Z | |
dc.rights.holder | © 2022 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/7/853 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/brainsci12070853 | |
dc.departamentoes | Lingüística y estudios vascos | |
dc.departamentoeu | Hizkuntzalaritza eta euskal ikasketak |
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