Syntax does not necessarily precede semantics in sentence processing: ERP evidence from Chinese  

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Zhang, Yaxu ; Li, ping ; Piao, Qiuhong ; Liu, Youyi ; Huang, Yongjing ; Shu, Hua

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 126 no. 1 (2013), page 8-19.
Topik: Syntactic processing; Semantic processing; Syntactic category; Verb argument structure; Event-related brain potentials; Sentence comprehension
Fulltext: 126_01_Zhang.pdf (1.12MB)

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Two event-related potential experiments were conducted to examine whether the processing of syntactic category or syntactic subcategorization frame always needs to temporally precede semantic processing during the reading of Chinese sentences of object–subject–verb construction. The sentences contained (a) no anomalies, (b) semantic only anomalies, (c) syntactic category plus semantic anomalies, or (d) transitivity plus semantic anomalies. In both experiments, all three types of anomalies elicited a broad negativity between 300 and 500 ms. This negativity included an N400 effect, given its distribution. Moreover, syntactic category plus semantic anomalies elicited a P600 response, whereas the other two types of anomalies did not. The finding of N400 effects suggests that semantic integration can be attempted even when the processing of syntactic category or syntactic subcategorization frame is unsuccessful. Thus, syntactic processing is not a necessary prerequisite for the initiation of semantic integration in Chinese.

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