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Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque

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2024
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Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Sauppe, S., Andrews, C., Laka, I., Meyer, M., & Bickel, B. (2024). Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(1), 76–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2250023

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Comprehenders across languages tend to interpret role-ambiguous arguments as the subject or the agent of a sentence during parsing. However, the evidence for such a subject/agent preference rests on the comprehension of transitive, active-voice sentences where agents/subjects canonically precede patients/objects. The evidence is thus potentially confounded by the canonical order of arguments. Transitive sentence stimuli additionally conflate the semantic agent role and the syntactic subject function. We resolve these two confounds in

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39

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1

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76

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97

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Cognitive Neuroscience, Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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2024-01-02

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2023-09-20

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2327-3798

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88 since deposited on 2023-09-20
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Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Sauppe, S., Andrews, C., Laka, I., Meyer, M., & Bickel, B. (2024). Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(1), 76–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2250023

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