School of Linguistics Sciences and Arts, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China; School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
School of Linguistics Sciences and Arts, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China; Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.
Brain Lang. 2021 Mar;214:104907. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104907. Epub 2021 Jan 24.
It has been well established that syntactic representation is independent of semantic representation in Indo-European languages, but it is unclear whether this is the case in Chinese. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study adopted a syntactic priming paradigm to investigate the neural basis of Chinese syntactic representation. A passive sentence was preceded by either a passive or an active sentence without repeating a verb or a pattern of agent-patient animacy, thus constructing primed and unprimed sentence pairs based on sentence structure. The fMRI data were collected from 22 native Chinese speakers while they were reading the sentences. Priming-related activation suppression was found in the left temporal pole, left inferior frontal gyrus and left precentral gyrus. The results are the strongest neuroimaging evidence to date that syntactic representation is independent of semantic representation in Chinese, in line with Indo-European languages.
已充分证实，在印欧语系中，句法表现独立于语义表现，但汉语是否如此还不清楚。本功能磁共振成像（fMRI）研究采用句法启动范式，来探究汉语句法表现的神经基础。一个被动句之前会呈现一个被动句或主动句，但不会重复动词或主谓宾格的模式，因此根据句子结构构建了启动句和未启动句对。22 名母语为汉语的被试在阅读这些句子时采集了 fMRI 数据。在左颞极、左额下回和左中央前回发现了与启动相关的激活抑制。这些结果是迄今为止句法表现独立于语义表现的最强神经影像学证据，与印欧语系一致。
