2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Influence of Second Language Proficiency on Sentence Comprehension: An fMRI Study
| Project/Area Number |
23720193
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
KIM JUNGHO 東北大学, 文学研究科, 専門研究員 (70513852)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 文処理 / 韓国語 / かきまぜ語順文 / 言語認知脳科学 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, we conducted an experiment to unravel the mechanism of sentence processing during the parsing of scrambled sentences in Korean as L1 and L2. The result showed more activation at the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) during the comprehension of scrambled sentences than that of canonical sentences. This indicates, in accordance with previous findings on scrambling from neurolinguistic perspectives, that scrambling in Korean is indeed a grammatical operation and that the parsing strategy for the asymmetric antecedent-gap relationship demands an additional cognitive activation in the brain.
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