#4131. Animacy modulates gender agreement comprehension in Hindi: An ERP study

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Language and Linguistics;
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Cognitive Neuroscience;
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Abstract:
The animate–inanimate distinction is of crucial importance cognitively, and animacy has been known to influence language comprehension. However, little is known about the role of animacy in verb agreement processing. The present study employed event-related brain potentials to examine whether the gender agreement of the verb with animate (natural gender) and inanimate (grammatical gender) subject nouns reveal similar or different processing mechanisms. Critical stimuli were intransitive sentences of the form subject–verb–aux. Subject nouns were either animate or inanimate, and the verb either showed correct gender agreement or violated it. The result suggests that different underlying mechanisms are involved in the computation of gender agreement with animate and inanimate arguments, illustrating the crucial role that animacy plays in verb agreement processing.
Keywords:
Agreement; animacy; gender; language; language processing

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