{"pk":25986,"title":"An ERP study of syntactic anomaly processing in Mandarin sentences","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The present study addresses (1) whether Chinese classifier-noun integration is syntactic or semantic in nature, and (2)\nwhether the Anterior Negativity in brainwaves is a separable component indexing automatic morphosyntactic processing (Hagoort,\n2003) or instead results from overlapping N400 and P600 components (Tanner, 2014). In Chinese, classifiers (e.g., a sheet\nof) must be used whenever any noun is quantified or specified and must be congruent with noun meaning. Thirty-three Mandarin\nspeakers read 120 sets of sentences that manipulated classifier-noun congruency (There is a machine-like-classifier/sheet-likeclassifier\ncomputer on the table) and classifier presence (a machine-like-classifier computer vs. *a computer). A larger N400\ncomponent in the incongruent condition suggests that classifier-noun integration is primarily semantic. In the classifier-absent\ncondition, a P600 was observed during the first half of the experiment but that diminished during the second half and an apparent\nAnterior Negativity emerged, suggesting that readers changed their processing strategy over time.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9q482461","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Zhiying","middle_name":"","last_name":"Qian","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","department":""},{"first_name":"Susan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Garnsey","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25986/galley/15610/download/"}]}