Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement - An ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing.
Brain Lang
; 254: 105427, 2024 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
Adjectives in English and Mandarin are typically prenominal, but the corresponding grammatical rules vary in subtle ways. Our event-related potential (ERP) study shows that native speakers of both languages rely on similar processing mechanisms when reading sentences with anomalous noun-adjective order (e.g., the vase *white) in their first language, reflected by a biphasic N400-P600 profile. Only Mandarin native speakers showed an additional N400 on grammatical adjectives (e.g., the white vase), potentially due to atypical word-by-word presentation of lexicalized compounds. English native speakers with advanced Mandarin proficiency were tested in both languages. They processed ungrammatical noun-adjective pairs in English like English monolinguals (N400-P600), but only exhibited an N400 in Mandarin. The absent P600 effect corresponded to their (surprisingly) low proficiency with noun-adjective violations in Mandarin, questioning simple rule transfer from English grammar.
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Multilinguismo
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Potenciais Evocados
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Idioma
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Brain Lang
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Brain and language
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Brain lang
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2024
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Article