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  "abstract": "Introduction\n\nTurkish permits grammatical non-canonical word order while morphological case marking disambiguates thematic roles.Methods\n\nWe examined comprehension accuracy and verb-locked event-related potentials (ERPs) to Turkish canonical subject-object-verb (SOV) and non-canonical object-subject-verb (OSV) sentences in adults (n = 67; 18-44 years) and children (n = 37; 4.3-9.7 years).Results\n\nAccuracy was lower for OSV than SOV in both groups, with a significantly larger SOV-OSV accuracy difference in children. Adults showed a late posterior OSV > SOV positivity, with significant effects in several prespecified windows within the 600-1,200-ms interval, consistent with increased sentence-final processing demands associated with the non-canonical configuration at the final verb. Children showed no reliable corresponding positivity after correction for multiple comparisons. Critically, however, Group × Sentence Type interactions did not survive correction, providing insufficient evidence that the magnitude of the SOV-OSV ERP effect differed between adults and children. Within children, chronological age showed no reliable linear or quadratic association with the behavioral or ERP SOV-OSV difference across the sampled age range. By contrast, stronger grammatical ability predicted higher comprehension accuracy in both sentence types beyond age; the same general pattern was obtained for broader language ability. Neither grammatical nor broader language ability reliably modulated the SOV-OSV ERP difference.Discussion\n\nOverall, the findings suggest that the availability of morphosyntactic case cues does not by itself entail adult-like efficiency in integrating those cues during sentence comprehension, and that developmental patterns may be expressed differently across behavioral and electrophysiological measures.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "Institute of Health Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye.",
    "Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye.",
    "Vocational School of Health Services, Altınbaş University, Istanbul, Türkiye.",
    "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Neurobiology of Language Department, Nijmegen, Netherlands."
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      "name": "Medine Dudu"
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      "name": "Yağmur Köyel Yıldırım"
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      "name": "Talat Bulut"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/a9mhbh8yf76xp.bib",
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  "doi": "10.3389/fnhum.2026.1968429",
  "fulltext_url": "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13683596",
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  "language": "eng",
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  "licence_label": "CC BY",
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  "pdf_url": "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13683596?pdf=render",
  "pmcid": "PMC13683596",
  "pmid": "42908908",
  "published": "2026-10-07",
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  "title": "Processing canonical and non-canonical word orders in Turkish: behavioral and ERP evidence from adults and children.",
  "title_text": "Processing canonical and non-canonical word orders in Turkish: behavioral and ERP evidence from adults and children.",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:20:10Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/a9mhbh8yf76xp",
  "venue": "Frontiers in human neuroscience",
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