ERP Responses to Violations in the Hierarchical Structure of Functional Categories in Japanese Verb Conjugation

Autor/inn/en	Kobayashi, Yuki; Sugioka, Yoko; Ito, Takane
Titel	ERP Responses to Violations in the Hierarchical Structure of Functional Categories in Japanese Verb Conjugation
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47 (2018) 1, S.215-240 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-017-9525-8
Schlagwörter	Japanese; Reader Response; Grammar; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Cognitive Processes; Language Processing; Syntax; Morphemes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Japaner; Japanisch; Leserbrief; Grammatik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Sprachverarbeitung; Morphem
Abstract	An event-related potential experiment was conducted in order to investigate readers' response to violations in the hierarchical structure of functional categories in Japanese, an agglutinative language where functional heads like Negation (Neg) as well as Tense (Tns) are realized as suffixes. A left-lateralized negativity followed by a P600 was elicited for the anomaly of attaching a Neg morpheme outside a Tns-marking suffix (i.e., syntactic violation of the form *[[V - Tns] - Neg]), while only P600 was observed for the anomalous form with a purely morphological/morpho-phonological violation, i.e., a Neg morpheme attached to "ren'yo" form instead of Neg-selecting form. The findings suggest that the syntactic structure involving Tns and Neg in Japanese, realized within a word as a sequence of suffixes, is processed in a similar manner to the syntactic structures that are phrasally realized in well-studied European languages like English. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01