%0 Journal Article %A Sauppe, Sebastian %A Choudhary, Kamal K. %A Giroud, Nathalie %A Blasi, Damián E. %A Norcliffe, Elisabeth %A Bhattamishra, Shikha %A Gulati, Mahima %A Egurtzegi, Aitor %A Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina %A Meyer, Martin %A Bickel, Balthasar %+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society %T Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-79F7-A %R 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001038 %7 2021-01-26 %D 2021 %8 26.01.2021 %* Review method: peer-reviewed %X Little is known about the neural processes involved in planning to speak. This study uses eye-tracking and EEG to show that speakers prepare sentence structures in different ways and rely on alpha and theta oscillations differently when planning sentences with and without agent case marking, challenging theories on how production and comprehension affect language evolution. %K Syntax, Sentence processing, Electroencephalography, Phonology, Decision trees, Language families, Languages, Linguistics %J PLoS Biology %O PLoS Biol. %V 19 %N 1 %] e3001038 %I Public Library of Science %C San Francisco, California, US %@ 1544-9173