Review of Second Language Syntax Processing Research Based on ERP Experiments

Over the past decades, research on second language acquisition based on ERP has gained traction among scholars. This review summarizes recent research on second language acquisition using ERP, with a special emphasis on the preferences of Indo-European native speakers and Chinese learners in syntactic studies. Key factors include language proficiency, syntactic structure similarity, tense and voice, and the age of initial learning. The violation paradigm is commonly used, followed by the priming paradigm. The N400 and P600 ERP components are the main focus in this field.