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Authors and affiliations : Émilie Courteau (1,2), Clara Misirliyan(1,2), Karsten Steinhauer (2,4) and Phaedra Royle (2,3,4); 1-School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Montreal 2-CRBLM 3-BRAMS 4-School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University

French adjective word-order is freer than in English: adjectives may be pre- or post-nominal, and their positions can be predicted by their lexico-semantic category. This study investigates whether incorrect adjective orders will elicit the same N400-P600 as seen in English, and if there are underlying differences in processing PRE and POST adjectives. We find that incorrect word-order position of PRE adjectives in French elicit an N400-P600 pattern, as seen in other syntax studies, while POST adjectives elicit a P600 followed by a small N400. French speakers process these adjectives differently and show stronger syntactic word-order error effects for prenominal adjectives.