Beat gestures and syntactic parsing: an ERP study

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• dc.contributor.author Biau, Emmanuel, 1985-
• dc.contributor.author Fromont, Lauren A.
• dc.contributor.author Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970-
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-06-14T07:47:23Z
• dc.date.available 2021-06-14T07:47:23Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract We tested the prosodic hypothesis that the temporal alignment of a speaker's beat gestures in a sentence influences syntactic parsing by driving the listener's attention. Participants chose between two possible interpretations of relative-clause (RC) ambiguous sentences, while their electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. We manipulated the alignment of the beat within sentences where auditory prosody was removed. Behavioral performance showed no effect of beat placement on the sentences’ interpretation, while event-related potentials (ERPs) revealed a positive shift of the signal in the windows corresponding to N100 and P200 components. Additionally, post hoc analyses of the ERPs time locked to the RC revealed a modulation of the P600 component as a function of gesture. These results suggest that beats modulate early processing of affiliate words in continuous speech and potentially have a global impact at the level of sentence-parsing components. We speculate that beats must be synergistic with auditory prosody to be fully consequential in behavior.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by the Ministerio de Econom´ıa y Competitividad (PSI2016-75558-P), AGAUR Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR856), and the European Research Council (StG-2010 263145). EB was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 707727
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• dc.identifier.citation Biau E, Fromont LA, Soto Faraco S. Beat gestures and syntactic parsing: an ERP study. Lang Learn. 2017;68(S1):102-26. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12257
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lang.12257
• dc.identifier.issn 0023-8333
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47864
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Language Learning. 2017;68(S1):102-26
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/707727
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/PSI2016-75558-P
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/263145
• dc.rights This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Biau E, Fromont LA, Soto Faraco S. Beat gestures and syntactic parsing: an ERP study. Lang Learn. 2017;68(S1):102-26, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lang.12257. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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• dc.subject.keyword Audiovisual speech
• dc.subject.keyword Gestures
• dc.subject.keyword Prosody
• dc.subject.keyword Syntactic parsing
• dc.subject.keyword ERPs
• dc.subject.keyword P600
• dc.title Beat gestures and syntactic parsing: an ERP study
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