Event-related Potentials Reflecting the Processing of Phonological Constraint Violations

What is it about?

Some combinations of morphemes are restricted by phonological rules. The electrophysiological study on German words reported here provides evidence for the claim that phonological preferences found for such combinations of morphemes are real, in the sense that the brain immediately responds to violations of such preferences.

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Why is it important?

Most previous studies have only looked at semantic and/or morphosyntactic constraints.