Scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences: An fMRI study

Kim, Jungho; Koizumi, Masatoshi; Ikuta, Naho; Fukumitsu, Yuichiro; Kimura, Naoki; Iwata, Kazunori; Watanabe, Jobu; Yokoyama, Satoru; Sato, Shigeru; Horie, Kazuyuki; Kawashima, Ryuta

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.07.005

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“…These results bring another dimension to the existing conflict in findings i.e. preferences for a canonical word order in Basque (Erdocia et al, 2009), German (Weyerts et al, 2002) and Japanese (Kim et al, 2009) as opposed to the null effect in other Japanese studies (Tamaoka et al, 2003).…”

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“…For example, the results from Basque (Erdocia et al, 2009) indicate an advantage for canonical structures (SOV vs. OSV). One study with Japanese did not show any effect for word order (Tamaoka et al, 2003) but another study found an effect for word order with better performance with SOV compared to OSV sentences (Kim et al, 2009). It is to be noted that SVO (the best condition in our study) was not used in the studies on Basque and Japanese (Erdocia et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2009) and it would be interesting to see whether the advantage for canonical structure would still be present with the addition of SVO sentences.…”

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“…However, Kim, Koizumi, and Ikuta (2009) found that canonical (SOV) sentences are better processed than other non-canonical (Object-Subject-Verb: OSV) sentences in Japanese. Support for scrambling complexity also comes from a study on Basque, a free word order language (Erdocia, Laka, Mestres-Misse, & Rodriguez-Fornells, 2009).…”

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Revisiting the scrambling complexity hypothesis in sentence processing: a self-paced reading study on anomaly detection and scrambling in Hindi

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The scrambling complexity hypothesis based on working memory or locality accounts as well as syntactic accounts have proposed that processing a scrambled structure is difficult. However, the locus of this difficulty in sentence processing remains debatable. Several studies on multiple languages have explored the effect of scrambling on sentence processing and not all languages have shown an advantage for the canonical word order. Using a self-paced reading paradigm, we studied the effect of scrambling on semantic anomaly detection in Hindi sentence comprehension employing three word order types. Reading times on critical verbs, judgment latency, and error rates showed significant effect of word order type. The results further revealed significant interactions between word order and anomaly type. The patterns of results suggest that the canonical word order does not necessarily have a processing advantage in terms of speed and accuracy over non-canonical orders and do not provide support to sentence processing accounts that assume an advantage for canonical structures. The results indicate that processing speed depends on the distance between the subject and the verb, thus supporting a locality dependent working memory based model of sentence processing. The results provide evidence for the role of specific cognitive processes in Hindi sentence processing with further implications for language and literacy acquisition in Hindi.

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“…Kaiser & Trueswell, 2004, for Finnish;Kim, 2012, for Korean; Sekerina, 1997, for Russian;Tamaoka, Kanduboda, & Sakai, 2011, for Sinhalese). In terms of neurophysiological indices, studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging have found that there is a greater activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus during the processing of OS word orders compared to SO word orders (Grewe et al, 2007, for German;Kim et al, 2009;and Kinno, Kawamura, Shioda, & Sakai, 2008, for Japanese). ERP research also supports the claim that SO word orders are easier to process.…”

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Is the subject-before-object preference universal? An event-related potential study in the Kaqchikel Mayan language

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The processing load of sentences with different word orders in the Kaqchikel Mayan language was investigated using eventrelated potentials. We observed a P600 for subject-verb-object and verb-subject-object sentences as compared to verb-objectsubject (VOS) sentences, suggesting that VOS order is easier to process than the other orders. This is consistent with the traditional interpretation in Mayan linguistics that the syntactically determined basic word order is VOS in Kaqchikel, as in many other Mayan languages. More importantly, the results revealed that the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension observed in previous studies may not be universal; rather, processing load in sentence comprehension is greatly affected by the syntactic nature of individual languages.

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“…Kim et al (2009) found that there is more activity in some areas of the brain (the left inferior frontal gyrus and the left dorsal prefrontal cortex) during the comprehension of scrambled sentences than during the comprehension of canonical sentences. Although the results of Kim et al are based on the processing of simple transitive sentences (NP-ga NP-o V), the same method may be used to investigate brain activity during the comprehension of ditransitive sentences.…”

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Canonical Word Order of Japanese Ditransitive Sentences: A Preliminary Investigation through a Grammaticality Judgment Survey

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There have been three competing analyses regarding the canonical word order of Japanese ditransitive sentences: a) "Sga IO-ni DO-o V" is the canonical word order rather than "S-ga DO-o IO-ni V", b) both word orders are canonical, and c) the canonical word order depends on the type of the verb. The present study attempted to examine which of the three analyses might be most plausible through a grammaticality judgment survey. Twenty-seven native speakers of Japanese responded to a survey which consisted of three sections. While the data from one of the sections conformed to analysis a) above, the results of the two other sections remained inconclusive. A future study with a larger number of items and more refined survey methods, along with more studies from structural and psycholinguistic perspectives, would be necessary to clarify the point.

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Scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences: An fMRI study

Cited by 48 publications

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Revisiting the scrambling complexity hypothesis in sentence processing: a self-paced reading study on anomaly detection and scrambling in Hindi

Revisiting the scrambling complexity hypothesis in sentence processing: a self-paced reading study on anomaly detection and scrambling in Hindi

Is the subject-before-object preference universal? An event-related potential study in the Kaqchikel Mayan language

Canonical Word Order of Japanese Ditransitive Sentences: A Preliminary Investigation through a Grammaticality Judgment Survey

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