The mental representation of Chinese compounds: Evidence from aphasia
漢語複合詞的思維表徵:來自失語症的證據
Sydney M. Lamb; Xiuhong Zhang 悉德尼.蘭姆; 張秀宏
Abstract 摘要
Evidence has been accumulating that nouns and verbs are quite differently represented in the brain. Core information about verbs tends to be in the frontal lobe, while that for nouns tends to be in posterior cortical locations. Much of the evidence comes from aphasic patients, whose control of verbs is impaired in cases of frontal lobe lesions, while patients with posterior lesions have impaired access to nouns. According to this principle, a Chinese compound like fei-ji ‘airplane’, a frequently occurring noun form, would be expected to have its representation in posterior locations and should not be affected in cases of damage to the frontal lobe. Yet a recent study of compounds in Chinese aphasics reveals that those with frontal lobe damage have impaired access to the verb component (fei) of such compounds. This paper provides an explanation of the phenomenon using a neurologically plausible network model of the linguistic information in the brain.
Keywords 關鍵詞
Aphasia 失語症 Compounds複合詞 Network網路 Neurological 神經學的 Noun 名詞 Verb 動詞
Journal of Chinese Linguistics volume 38 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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