Table 1.

Properties of the stimulus and experimental task for existing electrophysiology studies reporting phoneme surprisal or cohort entropy effects.

StudyPhoneme surprisal effect?Cohort entropy effect?StimulusExperimental taskMultimorphemic words included?
Gagnepain et al. (2012)  yes no single words pause detection no 
Ettinger et al. (2014)  yes yes^ single words lexical decision yes 
Brennan et al. (2014)  – no single words lexical decision no 
Lewis and Poeppel (2014)  – no single words lexical decision no 
Gwilliams and Marantz (2015)  yes – single words lexical decision yes 
Kocagoncu et al. (2017)  – yes^ single words nonword detection not specified 
Gaston and Marantz (2018)  yes yes* three-word phrases phrase acceptability yes 
Brodbeck et al. (2018)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Donhauser and Baillet (2020)  yes – continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Gwilliams et al. (2021)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Gillis et al. (2021)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Brodbeck et al. (2022b)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
StudyPhoneme surprisal effect?Cohort entropy effect?StimulusExperimental taskMultimorphemic words included?
Gagnepain et al. (2012)  yes no single words pause detection no 
Ettinger et al. (2014)  yes yes^ single words lexical decision yes 
Brennan et al. (2014)  – no single words lexical decision no 
Lewis and Poeppel (2014)  – no single words lexical decision no 
Gwilliams and Marantz (2015)  yes – single words lexical decision yes 
Kocagoncu et al. (2017)  – yes^ single words nonword detection not specified 
Gaston and Marantz (2018)  yes yes* three-word phrases phrase acceptability yes 
Brodbeck et al. (2018)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Donhauser and Baillet (2020)  yes – continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Gwilliams et al. (2021)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Gillis et al. (2021)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 
Brodbeck et al. (2022b)  yes yes continuous speech comprehension questions yes 

Note. Dashes indicate studies that did not test for the specified effect. Superscripts indicate that a reported cohort entropy effect did not survive when phoneme surprisal was controlled for (*), or that such a test was not performed (^).

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