The Interaction of Morphosyntactic and Semantic Processing in Japanese Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials

Gengo Kenkyu: Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan Pub Date : 2016-03-25 DOI:10.11435/GENGO.149.0_43

Masataka Yano, T. Sakamoto

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Abstract

The present study examined event-related brain potential (ERP) responses to apparent Case-assignment violations to explore how morphosyntactic and semantic processing interact with each other during Japanese sentence comprehension. Consistent with previous studies on Case-assignment violation, the present results found that a Case-assignment violation elicited a left anterior negativity (LAN), followed by a posterior P600 compared with its grammatical counterpart. Crucially, the LAN-P600 effects were also elicited by a morphosyntactically well-formed sentence with a thematic implausible argument that may potentially force the sentence processor to perceive an apparent Case-assignment violation. Provided that the LAN effects can be interpreted as a morphosyntactic violation effect, these findings suggest that the morphosyntactic and semantic processing streams operate at least partially in parallel during sentence comprehension and that they begin to interact with one another at approximately 400 ms (at the latest) after encountering a verb.*

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日语句子理解中形态句法和语义加工的相互作用:来自事件相关脑电位的证据

本研究考察了事件相关脑电位(ERP)对明显违反格配的反应，以探讨形态句法加工和语义加工在日语句子理解过程中的相互作用。与以往关于违反格-赋值的研究一致，本研究的结果发现，违反格-赋值会引发左前向负性(LAN)，随后是与语法对应的后向P600。至关重要的是，LAN-P600效应也会被一个形态句法结构良好的句子引发，这个句子带有一个主题上不可信的论点，这可能会迫使句子处理器感知到明显的大小写赋值违规。假设LAN效应可以被解释为形态句法违反效应，这些研究结果表明，在句子理解过程中，形态句法和语义处理流至少部分并行运行，并且在遇到动词后大约400毫秒(最迟)开始相互作用

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