Sentence examples for syntactic violations from inspiring English sources

All syntactic violations were word category violations.

However, the P600 was not, as a late positivity was present for straightforward prosodic and syntactic violations but increased for the combined violations.

The syntactic violations elicited an Anterior Negativity between 300 and 500 ms. This negativity was bilateral and had a frontal distribution.

Similar anterior negativities with rightward lateralization (RAN) have been observed in response to "syntactic" violations during music processing (Koelsch, Gunter, Wittfoth, & Sammler, 2005; Patel et al., 1998).

These findings in visual narratives are reminiscent of the left anterior negativities (LAN) between 300 and 500 ms elicited by syntactic violations in language (e.g., Friederici, 2011; Hagoort, 2003; Neville, Nicol, Barss, Forster, & Garrett, 1991), where they have been interpreted as indices of violated structural expectations (Hoen & Dominey, 2000; Lau, Stroud, Plesch, & Phillips, 2006).

This suggests that non-words likely elicited a component associated with syntactic violations [24], [25].

The design excluded differential contributions of expectancy to influence the syntactic violation effects.

In two studies subjects were required to read Dutch sentences that in some cases contained a syntactic violation, in other cases a semantic violation.

Note, technically the syntactic violation was an "unexpectancy" as the following preposition rendered the sentence grammatical.

(animacy match- syntactic violation), Who did Barbie push the ball into?

We constructed questions where the wh-word-noun pair either matched (syntactic violation) or mismatched (control) (see materials).