Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970-Brunellière, Angèle2016-06-132016-07-012015Brunellière A, Soto-Faraco S. The interplay between semantic and phonological constraints during spoken-word comprehension. Psychophysiology. 2015; 52(1): 46–58. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.122851469-8986http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26915This study addresses how top-down predictions driven by phonological and semantic information interact on spokenword comprehension. To do so, we measured event-related potentials to words embedded in sentences that varied in the degree of semantic constraint (high or low) and in regional accent (congruent or incongruent) with respect to the target word pronunciation. The data showed a negative amplitude shift following phonological mismatch (target pronunciation incongruent with respect to sentence regional accent). Here, we show that this shift is modulated by sentence-level semantic constraints over latencies encompassing auditory (N100) and lexical (N400) components. These findings suggest a fast influence of top-down predictions and the interplay with bottom-up processes at sublexical and lexical levels of analysisapplication/pdfengThis is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Brunellière A, Soto-Faraco S. The interplay between semantic and phonological constraints during spoken-word comprehension. Psychophysiology. 2015; 52(1): 46–58., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12285. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12285Predictive mechanismsContext effectsSpoken-word comprehensionEvent-related potentialsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess