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DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 1: Language and Communication Psycholinguistics |
Abstract:
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Although error monitoring has been exclusively studied in production, we also make perceptual errors, for example when we misunderstand a speaker or when we misread a word. In the case of perceived speech, errors can not be observed directly in the way as they can in produced speech. A crucial question addressed in this thesis is how could the language user know that a perceptual error occurred? This is the first project that systematically tests for monitoring in the domain of language perception and attempts to explain how monitoring for perceptual errors comes about. We propose that it is a strong conflict between what is expected and what is observed which signals the presence of a possible processing error. Thereby, a monitoring response is triggered to check for possible perceptual errors. We maintain that it is this process which is reflected by the P600. The results of the experimental chapters demonstrate that monitoring takes places at different linguistic levels (sentence level, word level and conceptual level). From this we conclude that monitoring plays an important role in language perception.
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