NDLI: Why a “Word Order Difference” Is Not Always a “Word Order” Difference: A Reply to Weyerts, Penke, Münte, Heinze, and Clahsen

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Author	Schlesewsky, Matthias Bornkessel, Ina Meyer, Martin
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	We present evidence that the supposed processing advantage for an SV$_{fin}$O word order over an SOV$_{fin}$ word order in German argued for by Weyerts, Penke, Münte, Heinze, and Clahsen (2002) is supported by neither experimental nor theoretical evidence. Specifically, we show (a) that the frontocentral negativity for an SOV$_{fin}$ in comparison to an SV$_{fin}$O word order in Weyerts et al.'s Experiments 2 and 3 is reducible to more general differences in the electrophysiological responses elicited by nouns versus verbs in a sentence context, and (b) that the P600 difference between the two word orders in Experiment 2, as well as the reading time differences in Experiment 1, result from the fact that the two supposedly ungrammatical conditions actually differ in their degree of ill-formedness. We conclude that there is no evidence for a processing disadvantage for SOV$_{fin}$, thus reconciling Weyerts et al.'s results on German sentence processing with the grammatical regularities of German.
Starting Page	437
Ending Page	445
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00906905
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15736555
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Psycholinguistics Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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