Event-related potential evidence on the influence of accentuation in spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese

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	Event-related potential evidence on the influence of accentuation in spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese
	Li, Xiaoqing1 ; Hagoort, Peter 2; Yang, Yufang1
刊名	JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
	2008-05-01
卷号	20 期号:5 页码:906-915
ISSN号	0898-929X
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	In an event-related potential experiment with Chinese discourses as material, we investigated how and when accentuation influences spoken discourse comprehension in relation to the different information states of the critical words. These words could either provide new or old information. It was shown that variation of accentuation influenced the amplitude of the N400, with a larger amplitude for accented than for deaccented words. In addition, there was an interaction between accentuation and information state. The N400 amplitude difference between accented and deaccented new information was smaller than that between accented and deaccented old information. The results demonstrate that, during spoken discourse comprehension, listeners rapidly extract the semantic consequences of accentuation in relation to the previous discourse context. Moreover, our results show that the N400 amplitude can be larger for correct (new, accented words) than incorrect (new, deaccented words) information. This, we argue, proves that the N400 does not react to semantic anomaly per se, but rather to semantic integration load, which is higher for new information.; In an event-related potential experiment with Chinese discourses as material, we investigated how and when accentuation influences spoken discourse comprehension in relation to the different information states of the critical words. These words could either provide new or old information. It was shown that variation of accentuation influenced the amplitude of the N400, with a larger amplitude for accented than for deaccented words. In addition, there was an interaction between accentuation and information state. The N400 amplitude difference between accented and deaccented new information was smaller than that between accented and deaccented old information. The results demonstrate that, during spoken discourse comprehension, listeners rapidly extract the semantic consequences of accentuation in relation to the previous discourse context. Moreover, our results show that the N400 amplitude can be larger for correct (new, accented words) than incorrect (new, deaccented words) information. This, we argue, proves that the N400 does not react to semantic anomaly per se, but rather to semantic integration load, which is higher for new information.
学科主题	心理语言学
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000254798200013
公开日期	2011-08-22
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/5390]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Radboun Univ, Nijmegen, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Xiaoqing,Hagoort, Peter,Yang, Yufang. Event-related potential evidence on the influence of accentuation in spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese[J]. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE,2008,20(5):906-915.
APA	Li, Xiaoqing,Hagoort, Peter,&Yang, Yufang.(2008).Event-related potential evidence on the influence of accentuation in spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese.JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE,20(5),906-915.
MLA	Li, Xiaoqing,et al."Event-related potential evidence on the influence of accentuation in spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese".JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 20.5(2008):906-915.