Chapter 4
Experimental perspectives on information structure processing
A literature review
Article outline
- 4.1Preamble
- 4.2Psycholinguistic background on IS units
- 4.2.1Psycholinguistic perspectives on presupposition vs. assertion processing
- 4.2.2Psycholinguistic perspectives on the processing of topic, focus, given and new information
- 4.3Neurological frontiers on language studies: Brain imaging techniques
- 4.3.1Language-related neurophysiological components: N400 and P600
- 4.3.2Brain oscillatory dynamics as revealed by frequency bands
- 4.3.3Towards context-dependent approaches to the study of sentence processing
- 4.3.4Neurolinguistic approaches to presupposition vs. assertion processing
- 4.3.5Topic-focus, given-new and event-related brain potentials
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