An FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.

This study examined whether the degree of complexity of a grammatical component in a language would impact on its representation in the brain through identifying the neural correlates of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese. In particular, the processing of Chin...

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Autores principales:	Xi Yu, Yanchao Bi, Zaizhu Han, Sam-Po Law
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f63af5b1d47b4b948fa11e36f9c3b63a2021-11-18T08:51:32ZAn FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0074952https://doaj.org/article/f63af5b1d47b4b948fa11e36f9c3b63a2013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24146745/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This study examined whether the degree of complexity of a grammatical component in a language would impact on its representation in the brain through identifying the neural correlates of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese. In particular, the processing of Chinese nominal classifiers and verbal aspect markers were investigated in a sentence completion task and a grammaticality judgment task to look for converging evidence. The Chinese language constitutes a special case because it has no inflectional morphology per se and a larger classifier than aspect marker inventory, contrary to the pattern of greater verbal than nominal paradigmatic complexity in most European languages. The functional imaging results showed BA47 and left supplementary motor area and superior medial frontal gyrus more strongly activated for classifier processing, and the left posterior middle temporal gyrus more responsive to aspect marker processing. We attributed the activation in the left prefrontal cortex to greater processing complexity during classifier selection, analogous to the accounts put forth for European languages, and the left posterior middle temporal gyrus to more demanding verb semantic processing. The overall findings significantly contribute to cross-linguistic observations of neural substrates underlying processing of grammatical morphemes from an analytic and a classifier language, and thereby deepen our understanding of neurobiology of human language.Xi YuYanchao BiZaizhu HanSam-Po LawPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 10, p e74952 (2013)
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description	This study examined whether the degree of complexity of a grammatical component in a language would impact on its representation in the brain through identifying the neural correlates of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese. In particular, the processing of Chinese nominal classifiers and verbal aspect markers were investigated in a sentence completion task and a grammaticality judgment task to look for converging evidence. The Chinese language constitutes a special case because it has no inflectional morphology per se and a larger classifier than aspect marker inventory, contrary to the pattern of greater verbal than nominal paradigmatic complexity in most European languages. The functional imaging results showed BA47 and left supplementary motor area and superior medial frontal gyrus more strongly activated for classifier processing, and the left posterior middle temporal gyrus more responsive to aspect marker processing. We attributed the activation in the left prefrontal cortex to greater processing complexity during classifier selection, analogous to the accounts put forth for European languages, and the left posterior middle temporal gyrus to more demanding verb semantic processing. The overall findings significantly contribute to cross-linguistic observations of neural substrates underlying processing of grammatical morphemes from an analytic and a classifier language, and thereby deepen our understanding of neurobiology of human language.
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title	An FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.
title_short	An FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.
title_full	An FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.
title_fullStr	An FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.
title_full_unstemmed	An FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.
title_sort	fmri study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in chinese.
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An FMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese.

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