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Table 8 Sentence examples.

From: ERP correlates of intramodal and crossmodal L2 acquisition

Condition

Example sentence

Correct

Der Mann kocht das Essen in der Küche.

Engl.: The man cooks the meal in the kitchen.

Syntactic verb-agreement violation

*Der Mann kochen das Essen in der Küche.

Engl.: *The man cook the meal in the kitchen.

Semantic violation

*Der Mann kocht das Bild in der Küche.

Engl.: *The man cooks the picture in the kitchen.

  1. Correct, syntactically violated, and semantically violated sentences are shown. The critical word at which the verb-agreement violation was embedded is written in italic letters and the critical word at which the implausible object was embedded is written in underlined letters.