27.2567, Diss: Japanese, Neuroling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax: Masataka Yano: 'Temporal Dynamics of Syntactic and Semantic Prediction'

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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:41:01
From: Masataka Yano [masayano at kyudai.jp]
Subject: Temporal Dynamics of Syntactic and Semantic Prediction

 
Institution: Kyushu University 
Program: PhD program 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2016 

Author: Masataka Yano

Dissertation Title: Temporal Dynamics of Syntactic and Semantic Prediction 

Dissertation URL:  http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.4283.8165/1

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)


Dissertation Director(s):
Masatoshi Koizumi
Hajime Ono
Tomoyuki Kubo
Ayumi Ueyama
Michinori Shimoji

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation reports on a study that examined the temporal dynamics and
adaptive nature of syntactic and semantic prediction during Japanese sentence
comprehension using event-related brain potentials. Two types of sentences,
containing informational conflicts either between semantic and morphosyntactic
information or between semantic information, were used. The former type
involved argument role-reversal, as in the window closes someone, in which the
subject is semantically plausible as a THEME but syntactic information signals
it as an AGENT. The latter type involved an aspectually coerced sentence, such
as For ten minutes the dog jumped. 

The dissertation provides empirical evidence that structural and aspectual
expectation develop as a function of time, even when available information
does not change. Structural and aspectual mismatches modulate early effects
(i.e. approximately 300–500 ms post-onset), such as left anterior negativity
and anterior negativity, only when the time available for predictive
computation is sufficient. By contrast, late effects, such as P600 and late
anterior negativity are insensitive to the temporal predictability of
structural and aspectual information, and may reflect later processes, such as
structural and aspectual repair or revision processes. Finally, I discuss the
adaptive nature of predictive processing on the basis of the finding that the
expectation-related early anterior negativity gradually attenuated in
syntactically complex sentences, but no in syntactically simpler sentences.




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