言語理解における意味処理と統語処理に関する事象関連電位研究

Event-related-potential studies on semantic and syntactic processing in language comprehension

Nashiwa Hitomi

Miyatani Makoto

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第三部, 教育人間科学関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 3, Education and human science

Language has been considered a prototype of a complex, well-learned, multi-tiered intellectual activity that reflects the fundamental architecture of cognition (Carpenter, Miyake, & Just, 1995). Language comprehension involves the integration of semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic sources of knowledge. Much recent psycholinguistic work has assumed that syntactic and semantic interpretations of a sentence are produced by separate cognitive processes that can work serially or in parallel (Fodor, 1983). The mechanisms and time course of the integration process are a major issue in psycholinguistic research (Gunter, Stowe, & Mulder, 1997). However, there is still controversy about which model (serial model or parallel model) would be applicable. In this article, we introduced and compared several language studies which used event-related brain potential (ERP) measures, focused on time course of sentence processing, and reported divergent findings. Although these different findings might be results of using different methods (e.g. using different grammatical violation), tasks, or language, it is not yet clear where the divergence has come from. We discussed the advantages of ERP measures for disentangling these problems, and investigating the temporal structures of processes involved in language comprehension.

language comprehension

semantic process

syntactic process

event-related potentials (ERPs)

言語理解

意味処理

統語処理

事象関連電位(ERPs)

Education [ 370 ]

eng

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5562

[NCID] AA11625039