Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings
Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings
Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings
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the ‘case-chi’ experiment and the later latencies of P600 were obtained, as well. In short,<br />
hypotheses 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 cannot be confirmed.<br />
Generally, differences between TLD and SLI groups were obtained. However, as the<br />
results were somewhat surprising <strong>for</strong> the TLD group, actual shift in latency <strong>for</strong> LAN in<br />
‘case-chi’ experiment cannot be confirmed due to the fact that LAN was not obtained at<br />
all in both groups. However, later latencies of P600 in the SLI group were recorded. The<br />
same reasoning should be applied <strong>for</strong> the results in ‘tense-chi’ experiment: later latencies<br />
of P600 were indeed obtained, but the late negative deflection was not predicted at all in<br />
the first place. There<strong>for</strong>e, the hypotheses 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 can be only partially confirmed.<br />
The hypothesis 2.3 predicted the ‘global’ processing deficit in the SLI group, not the<br />
deficit on a particular area of grammatical knowledge. There<strong>for</strong>e, the hypothesis would<br />
have been falsified if the results of SLI children were similar to TLD children in only one<br />
experiment. This is not the case: the differences were obtained in both experiments. In<br />
addition, the differences between the experiments in the SLI group indicate that the<br />
dissociation of the grammatical functions, as observed in adults and – to some extent<br />
TLD children – was not obtained in the SLI group. This means that the hypothesis 2.3<br />
can be fully confirmed.<br />
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