Movement of Syntactic Elements in Mandarin and Taiwanese: An ERP Study

• Main Author: 紀佑明
• Other Authors: Lu, Ching-Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06762358786336287011

碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 臺灣語言與語文教育研究所 === 99 === 　　Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded while the Taiwanese-Mandarin bilingual hear Taiwanese and Mandarin sentences in which the different order of the existential sentences elements subject, verb, object was systematically varied. Compared to the condition SVO, hope we can observe the ERP component P600 in the condition OSV and VOS. 　　Result of the study: First, the Taiwanese experiment, we observed the ERP component P600 during the 500-900 ms in the ERP waveform of the second and third element of the　sentences. However, the amplitude of the P600 which was elicited by the second element of the sentence was larger than elicited by the third element of the sentence. The latency of P600 which was elicited by the second element of the condition VOS was longer that elicited by the second element of the condition OSV. 　　By the way, we also observed that the ERP component N400 was elicited by the third component of the condition OSV and VOS. Second, the Mandarin experiment, we observed the ERP component P600 during the 500-900 ms in the ERP waveform of the second and third element of the sentences. However, the amplitude of the P600 which was elicited by the second element of the sentence was larger than elicited by the third element of the sentence. The latency of P600 which was elicited by the second element of the condition VOS was longer that elicited by the second element of the condition OSV. 　　In this study, we did not add or delete any element of the syntactic structure when we manipulate the conditions of the syntactic violation. We moved the position of the sentence elements only in order to keep all the elements of the sentence. Compared to the condition SVO, the ERP component P600 was elicited by the second and third elementa of the condition OSV and VOS.