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The role of discourse in long-distance dependency formation

Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2021-07, Vol.36 (6), p.711-729 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2021 ;ISSN: 2327-3798 ;EISSN: 2327-3801 ;DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1883694

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  • Title:
    The role of discourse in long-distance dependency formation
  • Author: Yano, Masataka ; Koizumi, Masatoshi
  • Subjects: discourse ; Filler-gap dependency ; Japanese ; sustained left anterior negativity (SLAN)
  • Is Part Of: Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2021-07, Vol.36 (6), p.711-729
  • Description: Sentences with filler-gap dependency are more difficult to process than those without, as reflected by event-related brain potentials (ERPs) such as sustained left anterior negativity (SLAN). The cognitive processes underlying SLAN may support associating a filler with a temporally distant gap in syntactic representation. Alternatively, processing filler-gap dependencies in the absence of a supportive context involves additional discourse processing. The present study conducted an ERP experiment that manipulated syntactic complexity (subject-object-verb [SOV] and object-subject-verb [OSV]) and discourse (the supportive and non-supportive context) in Japanese. The result showed a SLAN in OSV relative to SOV in the non-supportive but not the supportive context, which suggests that the difficulty involved in processing OSV in Japanese is largely due to a pragmatic factor. The present study contributes to a better understanding of how the language-processing system builds long-distance dependency by interacting with the memory system.
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2327-3798
    EISSN: 2327-3801
    DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1883694
  • Source: Taylor & Francis Open Access
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