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Presentation 2017-07-23 09:30
Syntactic patterns to the semantic processing of Chinese spatial metaphors -- New evidence from latencies and ERPs --
Tao Ma (SSU) TL2017-26
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(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.
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(in English) Semantic processing / Chinese spatial metaphor / Syntactic pattern / ERPs / latency / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 149, TL2017-26, pp. 67-72, July 2017.
Paper # TL2017-26 
Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2017-07-22 - 2017-07-23 
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Place (in English) NINJAL 
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Topics (in English) Human Language Processing and Learning 
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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  
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1st Author's Name Tao Ma  
1st Author's Affiliation Shanghai Sanda University (SSU)
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Date Time 2017-07-23 09:30:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2017-26 
Volume (vol) vol.117 
Number (no) no.149 
Page pp.67-72 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL) 

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