L2 Processing of Short-distance Wh-movement in Wh-questions: An fMRI Study
2
조회
0
다운로드
1
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This investigation explores neural processes of nonnative sentence comprehension, focusing on a particular syntactic operation of short-distance syntactic movement. We delineate a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) manipulating this specific syntactic component. English construction i.e., wh-questions known to undergo syntactic movement are presented to native Korean speakers who are proficient in L2 English in a visual comprehension task and compared to carefully matched control sentences. We found that wh-questions as compared with yes/no questions induced activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (or Broca’s area), posterior superior temporal gyrus, and middle temporal gyrus, consistent with a previous study utilizing a native English auditory comprehension task. This finding suggests that increased proficiency results in native-like syntactic processing.
Abstract
This investigation explores neural processes of nonnative sentence comprehension, focusing on a particular syntactic operation of short-distance syntactic movement. We delineate a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) manipulating this specific syntactic component. English construction i.e., wh-questions known to undergo syntactic movement are presented to native Korean speakers who are proficient in L2 English in a visual comprehension task and compared to carefully matched control sentences. We found that wh-questions as compared with yes/no questions induced activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (or Broca’s area), posterior superior temporal gyrus, and middle temporal gyrus, consistent with a previous study utilizing a native English auditory comprehension task. This finding suggests that increased proficiency results in native-like syntactic processing.
참고문헌 (35)
- Balogh, J., "Gap-filling and End-of-sentence Effects in Real-time Language Processing: Implications for Modeling Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia", Brain and Language, 61, pp.169~182 (1998)
- Ben-Shachar, M., "The Neural Reality of Syntactic Transformations—Evidence from fMRI", Psychological Science, 14, pp.433~440 (2003)
- Ben-Shachar, M., "Neural Correlates of Syntactic Movement: Converging Evidence from Two fMRI Experiments", NeuroImage, 21, pp.1320~1336 (2004)
- Brett, M., "Region of Interest Analysis Using an Spm Toolbox", 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Neuroimage, 16(1) (2002)
- Buckner, R. L, "Functional-anatomic Correlates of Control Processes in Memory", Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp.3999~4004 (2003)
- Burkhardt, P., "The Role of the Anterior Left Hemisphere in Real-time Sentence Comprehension : Evidence from Split Intransitivity", Brain and Language, 86, pp.9~22 (2003)
- Caplan, D, "Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Syntactic Processing", Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30, pp.297~320 (2001)
- Caplan, D., "Vascular Responses to Syntactic Processing : Event-related fMRI Study of Relative Clauses", Human Brain Mapping, 15, pp.26~38 (2002)
- Chumbley, J., "Topological FDR for Neuroimaging", NeuroImage, 49(4), pp.3057~3064 (2010)
- Clahsen, H., "Grammatical Processing in Language Learners", Applied Psycholinguistics, 27(1), pp.3~42 (2006)
- Cooke, A., "Neural Basis for Sentence Comprehension: Grammatical and Short Term Memory Components", Human Brain Mapping, 15, pp.80~94 (2001)
- Fiebach, C. J., "Revisiting the Role of Broca’s Area in Sentence Processing: Syntactic Integration versus Syntactic Working Memory", Human Brain Mapping, 24(2), pp.79~91 (2005)
- Friederici, A. D., "Auditory Language Comprehension: an Event-related fMRI Study on the Processing of Syntactic and Lexical Information", Brain and Language, 74, pp.289~300 (2000)
- Gold, B. T., "Common Prefrontal Regions Co-activate with Dissociable Posterior Regions during Controlled Semantic and Phonological Tasks", Neuron, 35, pp.803~812 (2002)
- Grodzinsky, Y, "Language Deficits and the Theory of Syntax", Brain and Language, 27, pp.135~159 (1986)
- Grodzinsky, Y, "A Restrictive Theory of Trace Deletion in Agrammatism", Brain and Language, 51, pp.26~51 (1995)
- Grodzinsky, Y, "The Neurology of Syntax : Language Use without Broca’s Area", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, pp.1~21 (2000)
- Grodzinsky, Y., "The Neurology of Empty Categories : Aphasics’Failure to Detect Ungrammaticality", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, pp.281~292 (1998)
- Grodzinsky, Y., "Neuroimaging of Syntax and Syntactic Processing", Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16, pp.240~246 (2006)
- Hopp, H, "Syntactic Features and Reanalysis in Near-native Processing", Second Language Research, 22(3), pp.369~397 (2006)
- Just, M. A., "Brain Activation Modulated by Sentence Comprehension", Science, 274(5284), pp.114~116 (1996)
- Love, T., "How L eft Inferior F rontal Cortex Participates in Syntactic Processing : Evidence from Aphasia", Brain and Language, 107, pp.203~219 (2008)
- McDonald, J. L, "Beyond the Critical Period: Processing-based Explanations for Poor Grammaticality Judgment Performance by Late Second Language Learners", Journal of Memory and Language, 55(3), pp.381~401 (2006)
- Nicol, J., "The Role of Structure in Coreference Assignment during Sentence Comprehension", Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, pp.5~19 (1989)
- Indefrey, P., "Syntactic Processing in Left Prefrontal Cortex is Independent of Lexical Meaning", NeuroImage, 14, pp.546~555 (2001)
- Oldfield, R. C, "The Assessment and Analysis of Handedness : the Edinburgh Inventory", Neuropsychologia, 9, pp.97~113 (1971)
- Park, H., "Neural Correlates of Syntactic Movement:Evidence from an fMRI Experiment", ~ (2022)
- Piñango, M. M., "The Localization of Long-distance Dependency Components : Integrating the Focal-lesion and Neuroimaging Record", Frontiers in Psychology, 7, pp.1434~ (2016)
- Pliatsikas, C., "Processing Empty Categories in a Second Language: When Naturalistic Exposure Fills the (Intermediate) Gap", Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16(1), pp.167~182 (2013)
- Pliatsikas, C., "An fMRI Study on the Processing of Long-distance Wh-movement in a Second Language", Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1), pp.1~22 (2017)
- Santi, A., "Taxing Working Memory with Syntax:Bihemispheric Modulations", Human Brain Mapping, 28(11), pp.1089~1097 (2007)
- Santi, A., "The Battle for Broca’s Region", Trends in Cognitive Science, 12, pp.474~480 (2008)
- Swinney, D., "Neurobiological Distribution of Processing Resources Underlying Language Comprehension", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, pp.174~184 (1996)
- Thompson-Schill, S., "Role of Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex in Retrieval of Semantic Knowledge:a Reevaluation", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 94, pp.14792~14797 (1997)
- Zurif, E., "An Online Analysis of Syntactic Processing in Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia", Brain and Language, 45, pp.448~464 (1993)