Presentation 2002/5/20
The Role of Semantic Information in Sentence Comprehension : Examination by Event-Related Potential (ERP)
Miki UETSUKI, Kenji ITOH, Ichiro KOSHIDA, Akira IWANAMI,
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Abstract(in English) In order to examine the role of semantic information in Japanese sentence comprehension, we presented the garden-path sentences with the two different semantic congruence, and investigated event-related potential (ERP) components elicited by these sentences. The results indicate that the ERP components showed no significant difference between the two conditions. Parser builds the syntactic structure without reference to semantic information in the garden-path theory, on the other hand parser builds the syntactic structure using not only syntactic information but also semantic information in the constraint-based model. Accordingly, the results of the present study suggest that the garden-path theory is more suitable for Japanese sentence comprehension than the constraint-based model.
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Keyword(in English) garden-path / semantic congruency / sentence comprehension / event-related potential (ERP)
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Title (in English) The Role of Semantic Information in Sentence Comprehension : Examination by Event-Related Potential (ERP)
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Keyword(1) garden-path
Keyword(2) semantic congruency
Keyword(3) sentence comprehension
Keyword(4) event-related potential (ERP)
1st Author's Name Miki UETSUKI
1st Author's Affiliation Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo()
2nd Author's Name Kenji ITOH
2nd Author's Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
3rd Author's Name Ichiro KOSHIDA
3rd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology
4th Author's Name Akira IWANAMI
4th Author's Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
Date 2002/5/20
Paper # TL2002-5
Volume (vol) vol.102
Number (no) 92
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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