| Presentation | 2017-07-23 Syntactic patterns to the semantic processing of Chinese spatial metaphors Tao Ma, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This study investigates whether there are syntactic patterns to the semantic processing of Chinese spatial lexemes by measuring response latencies and ERPs from ten native Chinese speakers who judged the grammaticality of spatial lexemes with alternating conceptual and semantic properties i.e. horizontal versus vertical, spatial versus temporal, in alternating morphological and syntactic conditions i.e. phrasal versus lexical, focus versus topic, among 128 sentences of equal length modified from corpus output, half of which are artificially devised to be ungrammatical by violating semantic agreement between topics and foci. A significant latency difference is found between phrasal-topics and lexical-foci, but not between conceptual-semantic properties in the same morphological-syntactic conditions. The highest N400 amplitude is elicited from temporal-phrasal-foci and a significant P600 effect is observed in phrasal-foci regardless of grammaticality. These suggest a syntactic dependency in the Chinese conceptual metaphor processing where semantic priming is activated in the syntactic patterning of cognitive representation. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Semantic processing / Chinese spatial metaphor / Syntactic pattern / ERPs / latency |
| Paper # | TL2017-26 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-07-15 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2017/7/22(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | NINJAL |
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| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Masami Suzuki(KDDI Research) |
| Vice Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) |
| Secretary | Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Kyoto Univ.) |
| Assistant | Nobuyuki Jincho(Waseda Univ.) / Noriaki Takada(Ferris Univ.) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Syntactic patterns to the semantic processing of Chinese spatial metaphors |
| Sub Title (in English) | New evidence from latencies and ERPs |
| Keyword(1) | Semantic processing |
| Keyword(2) | Chinese spatial metaphor |
| Keyword(3) | Syntactic pattern |
| Keyword(4) | ERPs |
| Keyword(5) | latency |
| 1st Author's Name | Tao Ma |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Shanghai Sanda University(SSU) |
| Date | 2017-07-23 |
| Paper # | TL2017-26 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.117 |
| Number (no) | TL-149 |
| Page | pp.pp.67-72(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-07-15 (TL) |