of one word on another (again based on the idea that processing of a stimulus is somehow arrested when a new stimulus is encountered, although see Van Petten 1993), or using response deadlines. Indeed, these procedures have become so much the norm that ERP studies are sometimes criticized for drawing conclusions about timing without having resorted to any of them, even though time is an intrinsic property of the ERP. With ERPs, language manipulations can be tracked through time with millisecond resolution and without elaborate task conditions or any added task at all.
