Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings

aimed at obtaining and analyzing first records of child language. The project did not
result in establishing language development norms, but it was important for collecting
first experiences in building child language corpora and for collecting and analyzing
acoustic features of early child language (Škarić, 1973).
Until recently no electrophysiological method in language processing research has been
used. The first ERP studies of language comprehension started within the Language
Communication & Cognitive Neuroscience program (Dobravac & Išgum., 2004,
Palmović et al., 2004). In these studies the aim was set very low: to obtain basic ERP
components related to various aspects of syntactic and semantic processes involved in
language comprehension (LAN, P600, N400). For now, no language impairment studies
have been published, although Croatian could surely provide an interesting insight in a
number of phenomena. Dyslexia could be a good candidate. For a comparison, in a study
of dyslexia (Csépe et al., 2003) early ERP components do not differ between words and
pseudo-words (as it could be expected) due to the transparent Hungarian orthography.
Since Croatian orthography is even more transparent than Hungarian, similar results
could be expected.
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