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Abstract The current study employed electrophysiological measures to investigate semantic processing within a local classifier-noun phrase in Chinese. Toward this aim, semantic congruence between classifiers and nouns was manipulated, resulting… Click to show full abstract
Abstract The current study employed electrophysiological measures to investigate semantic processing within a local classifier-noun phrase in Chinese. Toward this aim, semantic congruence between classifiers and nouns was manipulated, resulting in four conditions: (i) a strong-constraint/high-cloze plausible (SP) condition, (ii) a weak-constraint/low-cloze plausible (WP) condition, (iii) a strong-constraint/implausible (SI) condition, and (iv) a weak-constraint/implausible (WI) condition. Participants were asked to judge the acceptability of the classifier-noun pairs. Our results corroborated previous findings by showing that the processing of classifier-noun congruence is sensitive to manipulations of constraint and cloze probability, as indicated by a gradient N400 effect (SP
Journal Title: Journal of Neurolinguistics
Year Published: 2021
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