CRC 1412/1: Situation-Register Congruence Meets Morphosyntax and Verb-Argument Violations: Real-Time and Post-Sentence Comprehension (SP C03)

The Project will assess — for the first time — the (representational and procedural) similarities in comprehenders’ processing of standard-language grammar compared with register. It asks whether one can parsimoniously assume a single mechanism and closely-linked mental representations or whether one must model standard-language and register processing via distinct mental representations and/or mechanisms. The project will investigate whether comprehenders draw on a single conceptual store (usage-based) for a word’s standard and colloquial versions (e.g. Schuhe vs. Latschen) or whether these are stored in distinct lexical assemblies and/or processed via distinct mechanisms, on the basis of eye-tracking and EEG studies.