التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
An event-related fNIRS investigation of Japanese word order. |
| المؤلفون: |
Nishimura, Yukika, Sugisaki, Koji, Hattori, Noriko, Inokuchi, Yasushi, Komachi, Masayuki, Nishimura, Yoshihiro, Ogawa, Mariko, Okada, Motohiro, Okazaki, Yuji, Taki, Waro, Yamamoto, Tetsuro, Yoshida, Etsuko, Ayano, Seiki |
| المصدر: |
Experimental Brain Research; Apr2010, Vol. 202 Issue 1, p239-246, 8p, 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
WORD order (Grammar), JAPANESE language, FRONTAL lobe, PREFRONTAL cortex, NEAR infrared spectroscopy, LINGUISTICS |
| مستخلص: |
Japanese is a free word-order language, and allows both subject–object–verb (SOV) and object–subject–verb (OSV) orders. Our previous study using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) imaging revealed that OSV sentences induce more activation in the left frontal lobe than SOV sentences. The present study develops our previous experiment: (1) by adopting an event-related design, and (2) by using sentences involving the adverb naze ‘why ’, which plays a prominent role in recent linguistic studies. The results of our new experiment indicated that the cerebral activation in O whySV sentences was significantly larger than that in S whyOV sentences, in the right anterior prefrontal region, which is consistent with the assumption that O whySV order is derived from S whyOV order. We speculate that the activation observed in the anterior prefrontal cortex during the processing of the sentences involving ‘why’ might be due to the processing of higher-order function in the cerebral cortex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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