Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings

with, for example, evidentials late negativity similar to the N400’ obtained in ‘tense’
experiment could be obtained.
The obtained dissociation of various elements of syntactic processing confirms
hypothesis 1.1. which states that different aspects of syntax will elicit different
electrophysiological responses. In particular, hypothesis 1.1.1 which predicts ERP
components in ‘case’ experiment can be fully confirmed. In this experiment LAN and
P600 components have been obtained, as predicted by the hypothesis. However, the
hypothesis 1.1.2. stating that ‘tense’ experiment would elicit only P600 showed to be
only partially true: while P600 component was obtained, the experiment had rather
unexpected results: a broad late negative wave on left frontal electrodes labeled N400’.
This result, in turn, corroborates the dissociation between two parts of syntax, as claimed
in the hypothesis 1.1.
5.3.2. Developmental data
Children with TLD. It can be stated that the task of comprehending a sentence is thus
even more demanding than it is generally thought with different processes taking part in a
brief time window. Developmentally, this means that a vast quantity of data should be
processed with a limited mechanism. Delay in latency observed in the TLD children
group can be a good indication of a mechanism that is – at the age of 9-11 – not fully
developed. This is contrary to the predictions stated in the hypotheses 2.1. and 2.1.1.
Therefore, these hypotheses cannot be confirmed. The hypotheses were based on the fact
that at that age children with TLD have acquired the both tense and case system of
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