Semantic Processing Persists despite Anomalous Syntactic Category: ERP   Evidence from Chinese Passive Sentences

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	Semantic Processing Persists despite Anomalous Syntactic Category: ERP Evidence from Chinese Passive Sentences
	Yang, Yang ; Wu, Fuyun ; Zhou, Xiaolin
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2015
关键词	EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS BRAIN POTENTIALS TEMPORAL STRUCTURE COMPREHENSION LANGUAGE INFORMATION INTEGRATION HIERARCHY INCONGRUITY P600
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0131936
英文摘要	The syntax-first model and the parallel/interactive models make different predictions regarding whether syntactic category processing has a temporal and functional primacy over semantic processing. To further resolve this issue, an event-related potential experiment was conducted on 24 Chinese speakers reading Chinese passive sentences with the passive marker BEI (NP1 + BEI + NP2 + Verb). This construction was selected because it is the most-commonly used Chinese passive and very much resembles German passives, upon which the syntax-first hypothesis was primarily based. We manipulated semantic consistency (consistent vs. inconsistent) and syntactic category (noun vs. verb) of the critical verb, yielding four conditions: CORRECT (correct sentences), SEMANTIC (semantic anomaly), SYNTACTIC (syntactic category anomaly), and COMBINED (combined anomalies). Results showed both N400 and P600 effects for sentences with semantic anomaly, with syntactic category anomaly, or with combined anomalies. Converging with recent findings of Chinese ERP studies on various constructions, our study provides further evidence that syntactic category processing does not precede semantic processing in reading Chinese.; Shanghai Municipal Philosophy and Social Sciences Foundation [2010BYY003]; New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-12-0907]; Natural Science Foundation of China [30110972, 91232708]; National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2010CB833904]; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; ARTICLE; fywu@shisu.edu.cn; xz104@pku.edu.cn; 6; e0131936; 10
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/419041]
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	Yang, Yang,Wu, Fuyun,Zhou, Xiaolin. Semantic Processing Persists despite Anomalous Syntactic Category: ERP Evidence from Chinese Passive Sentences[J]. PLOS ONE,2015.
APA	Yang, Yang,Wu, Fuyun,&Zhou, Xiaolin.(2015).Semantic Processing Persists despite Anomalous Syntactic Category: ERP Evidence from Chinese Passive Sentences.PLOS ONE.
MLA	Yang, Yang,et al."Semantic Processing Persists despite Anomalous Syntactic Category: ERP Evidence from Chinese Passive Sentences".PLOS ONE (2015).