Anticipation and language processing: reviewing main evidences for prediction mechanisms

Authors

  • Mahayana Cristina Godoy Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Cláudia Brandão Vieira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
  • Maria Luiza Cunha Lima Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v41i71.7227

Keywords:

Anticipation. Language processing. Event-related potentials.

Abstract

In this paper, some of the key issues involved in the the relationship between anticipatory mechanisms and language processing are discussed. By reviewing studies from the last two decades, we present evidence that linguistic processing is sometimes guided by anticipation mechanisms and, therefore, a solely integrative model cannot account for the presented data. Although we do not discuss how central these anticipatory processes are for language comprehension, we argue that the study of an event-related potential - a late frontal positivity - can be helpful in answering questions such as how, when and what we predict during language processing.

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Author Biographies

Mahayana Cristina Godoy, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Doutora em Linguística (Unicamp) e professora adjunta no Departamento de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Cláudia Brandão Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Maria Luiza Cunha Lima, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Professora Doutora da Faculdade de Letras e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

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Published

2016-10-17

How to Cite

Godoy, M. C., Vieira, C. B., & Cunha Lima, M. L. (2016). Anticipation and language processing: reviewing main evidences for prediction mechanisms. Signo, 41(71), 63-74. https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v41i71.7227

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 71 (2016)

Section

Tema Livre

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