Syntactic parsing as revealed by brain responses: first-pass and second-pass parsing processes.
This paper reviews a series of electrophysiological experiments on syntactic processing against the background of a psycholinguistic two-stage model of parsing. The data reveal two event-related brain potential components in correlation with syntactic processes: an early left anterior negativity and a late centro-parietal positivity. It is argued that these two components can be correlated with two separate stages of syntactic processing: the early left anterior negativity reflecting first-pass parsing processes and the late positivity reflecting second-pass parsing processes possibly including processes of reanalyses.
Friederici
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Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany.
Mecklinger
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