Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms

Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Andrea Schremm, Mikael Novén, Merle Horne, Mikael RollAbstractThe present electrophysiological study investigated irregular versus regular verb form processing in Swedish during reading. In line with previous results from other languages, overregularized verbs, i.e. incorrect irregular stem + regular past tense suffix combinations (e.g. *stjäl + de 'steal + past tense'), elicited a left-lateralized negativity (LAN) relative to correct irregulars (stal 'stole'), suggesting rule-based decomposition of regularly inflected words. Lack of a similar effect for misapplication of the irregular stem formation pattern on regular verbs (e.g. *löft 'lifted' instead of lyfte) suggests the involv...

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