Proficiency differences in syntactic processing of monolingual native speakers indexed by event-related potentials.
Proficiency differences in syntactic processing of monolingual native speakers indexed by event-related potentials.
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DOI：
10.1162/jocn.2009.21393
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发表时间：
2010-12
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Neville HJ
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作者：
Pakulak E;Neville HJ
While anecdotally there appear to be differences in the way native speakers use and comprehend their native language, most empirical investigations of language processing study university students and none have studied differences in language proficiency which may be independent of resource limitations such as working memory span. We examined differences in language proficiency in adult monolingual native speakers of English using an event-related potential (ERP) paradigm. ERPs were recorded to insertion phrase structure violations in naturally spoken English sentences. Participants recruited from a wide spectrum of society were given standardized measures of English language proficiency, and two complementary ERP analyses were performed. In between-groups analyses, participants were divided, based on standardized proficiency scores, into Lower Proficiency (LP) and Higher Proficiency (HP) groups. Compared to LP participants, HP participants showed an early anterior negativity that was more focal, both spatially and temporally, and a larger and more widely distributed positivity (P600) to violations. In correlational analyses, we utilized a wide spectrum of proficiency scores to examine the degree to which individual proficiency scores correlated with individual neural responses to syntactic violations in regions and time windows identified in the between-group analyses. This approach also employed partial correlation analyses to control for possible confounding variables. These analyses provided evidence for the effects of proficiency that converged with the between-groups analyses. These results suggest that adult monolingual native speakers of English who vary in language proficiency differ in the recruitment of syntactic processes that are hypothesized to be at least in part automatic as well as of those thought to be more controlled. These results also suggest that in order to fully characterize neural organization for language in native speakers it is necessary to include participants of varying proficiency.
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影响因子：
2
作者：
Friederici, AD;Mecklinger, A
通讯作者：
Mecklinger, A
DOI：
10.1080/01690969308407585
发表时间：
1993-11-01
期刊：
LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES
影响因子：
--
作者：
HAGOORT, P;BROWN, C;GROOTHUSEN, J
通讯作者：
GROOTHUSEN, J
影响因子：
2
作者：
Friederici, AD;Hahne, A;Saddy, D
通讯作者：
Saddy, D
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
FRIEDERICI, AD
通讯作者：
FRIEDERICI, AD
影响因子：
5.7
作者：
Hagoort, P
通讯作者：
Hagoort, P