講者：廖家萱博士 (University of Maryland/National Tsing Hua University)
講題：Enough time to get results? An ERP investigation with complex events
時間：2020年10月14日(星期三) 12:30-14:00
地點：人社院 B305 室
摘要：Understanding how verbs are related to their arguments in real time is critical to building a theory of online language comprehension. Previous studies on verb- argument computations have mainly focused on relating nouns to simple events denoted by a simple verb. In this talk, I will show that by investigating compound verbs, I can dissociate the timing of the subcomputations involved in argument role computations. A set of event-related potential (ERP) experiments in Mandarin comparing the processing of resultative compounds (Kid bit-broke lip: the kid bit his lip such that it broke) and coordinate compounds (Store owner hit-scolded employee: the store owner hit and scolded an employee) provides evidence for processing delays associated with verbs instantiating the causality relation (breaking-BY-biting) relative to the coordinate relation (hitting-AND-scolding). These results present a first step towards temporally dissociating the fine-grained subcomputations required to parse and interpret verb-argument relations.

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