Multiple semantic processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy:   Does the higher-level process proceed in face of a lower-level failure?

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.016

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	Multiple semantic processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy: Does the higher-level process proceed in face of a lower-level failure?
	Jiang, Xiaoming ; Zhou, Xiaolin
刊名	neuropsychologia
	2012
关键词	Hierarchical structure Semantic process Local priority Coordination process ERP N400 P600 Late negativity EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS PRENOMINAL ADJECTIVE ORDER COMPREHENSION ERP EVIDENCE SENTENCE COMPREHENSION LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION MANDARIN-CHINESE PARSING ROUTINES CONSTRAINTS INTEGRATION DISCOURSE
DOI	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.016
英文摘要	Humans have special abilities in processing hierarchical, recursive structures. Here we investigated how an upcoming word embedded in a hierarchical structure is semantically integrated into the prior representation during sentence comprehension. Participants read Chinese sentences with a complex verb argument structure "subject noun+verb+numeral+classifier+object noun", in which the object noun was constrained by the classifier in a local structure and by the verb in a higher-level structure. The semantic congruence between the classifier and the noun, between the verb and the noun, and between the verb and the classifier was manipulated individually or simultaneously to create a local mismatch (i.e., with classifier-noun mismatch), a sequential mismatch (with verb-classifier and classifier-noun mismatches) or a triple mismatch (with verb-classifier, classifier-noun, and verb-classifier mismatches) condition. Event-related potentials locked to the object noun showed increased N400 and late negativity responses over the local mismatch, the sequential mismatch and the triple mismatch conditions. The local mismatch additionally elicited a posterior positivity effect on the object noun. The verb-classifier mismatch elicited a right N400-like effect followed by a posterior positivity (P600) effect on the classifier. The N400 effects demonstrate that the semantic process at a higher syntactic level can proceed in face of the failure of semantic processes at lower levels when no structural re-interpretation is available, and that the semantic congruence between earlier sentence constituents can affect the integration of the upcoming word in the hierarchical structure. The P600 effects suggest the immediate triggering of a co-ordination process across syntactic levels whereas the late anterior negativity effects suggest the initiation of a second-pass semantic re-interpretation process. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000307025600021&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Behavioral Sciences; Neurosciences; Psychology, Experimental; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; 6; ARTICLE; 8; 1918-1928; 50
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/162801]
专题	心理与认知科学学院信息科学技术学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jiang, Xiaoming,Zhou, Xiaolin. Multiple semantic processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy: Does the higher-level process proceed in face of a lower-level failure?[J]. neuropsychologia,2012.
APA	Jiang, Xiaoming,&Zhou, Xiaolin.(2012).Multiple semantic processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy: Does the higher-level process proceed in face of a lower-level failure?.neuropsychologia.
MLA	Jiang, Xiaoming,et al."Multiple semantic processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy: Does the higher-level process proceed in face of a lower-level failure?".neuropsychologia (2012).