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When does gender constrain parsing? Evidence from ERPs

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Van Berkum,  Jos J. A.
Neurocognition of Language Processing , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

Brown,  Colin M.
Neurocognition of Language Processing , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Hagoort,  Peter
Neurocognition of Language Processing , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Van Berkum, J. J. A., Brown, C. M., & Hagoort, P. (1999). When does gender constrain parsing? Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 28(5), 555-566. doi:10.1023/A:1023224628266.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-2148-3
Abstract
We review the implications of recent ERP evidence for when and how grammatical gender agreement constrains sentence parsing. In some theories of parsing, gender is assumed to immediately and categorically block gender-incongruent phrase structure alternatives from being pursued. In other theories, the parser initially ignores gender altogether. The ERP evidence we discuss suggests an intermediate position, in which grammatical gender does not immediately block gender-incongruent phrase structures from being considered, but is used to dispose of them shortly thereafter.