MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

论文题目的研究将在第三年进行。 研究生学习，以便在年底前进入候选人资格 第四年。这一团契的总体目标在于掌握 行为和事件相关脑电位的研究方法 (ERP)心理语言学研究。这些技术将允许 关于语言与一般关系的考察 认知过程，以及对其潜在的理解 神经结构。特别关注的是多语言 人口，目的是了解它们与 关于语言、学习和发展记忆能力的单语， 认知资源的分配与认知资源的调节 语言策略。有一个长期的监狱来理解 儿童语言相关技能的发展，以及 大脑结构和神经过程的相应发展。 此外，人们的兴趣在于维护、改进和适应 无论是正常语言还是非正常语言，这些技能贯穿一生 生长，以及由于神经侮辱而丧失的这些技能 和衰老。这项研究提案的直接目标是检查 形态性别在句子语义加工中的作用 背景。这项研究的结果可能会影响我们对 语言中语义信息与句法信息的关系 正在处理。此外，它可能会对 加工的本质--无名氏群体中的分解。这个 词形和词义之间的关系是 不清楚。然而，访问特定单词的性别信息 与词形本身密切相关。如果性别标记可以帮助 在话语的语义展开中，或许性别线索可以 提供有关命名对象的能力的线索 脱离了识别它的能力。对.的使用 心理语言学对理解和表现的测量，例如 实时听觉句子刺激的反应时研究 演示文稿，将提供有关性别线索在 句子的语义和句法处理。ERPS将提供 关于这些过程的神经学时间进程的信息，由 通过像N400这样的大脑电位表明，在什么时候 性别标记词所提供的信息会影响意义 一句话的。最后，性别在中国是否保持其影响 双语者(例如西班牙语/英语)的语义处理将是 检查过了。

Research for a dissertation topic will take place during the third year of graduate studies, in order to advance to candidacy by the end of the fourth year. The general goal under this fellowship lies in mastering the research techniques for behavioral and event related brain potential (ERP) studies in psycholinguistics. These techniques will allow for investigation into the relationship between language and general cognitive processes, and for an understanding of their underlying neurological structures. The particular focus is on multilingual populations, with the aim of understanding how they differ from monolingual on memory capacity for language, learning and development, the distribution of cognitive resources and the reconciliation of linguistic strategies. There is a long-term gaol of understanding the development of language-related skills in children, and the corresponding development of brain structures and neural processes. Moreover, interest lies in the maintenance, improvement and adaption of these skills over a life-time in both normal and abnormal language growth, as well as the loss of these skills due to neurological insult and aging. The immediate goal of this research proposal is to examine the role of morphological gender in semantic processing of a sentential context. The results of this study can impact our understanding of the relationship between semantic and syntactic information in language processing. Furthermore, it could have theoretical implications for the nature of the processing-breakdown in anomic populations. The relationship between a word-form and the meaning of that word is unclear. However, accessing gender information for a particular word is closely linked to the word-form itself. If gender-marking can assist in the semantic unfolding of an utterance, then perhaps gender-cues can provide a clue as to the point at which the ability to name an object dissociates from the ability to recognize it. The use of psycholinguistic measures of comprehension and performance, such as reaction-time studies with auditory sentence-stimuli in real-time presentation, will provide information about the role of gender cues in both semantic and syntactic processing of a sentence. ERPs will provide information about the neurological time-course of these processes, by indicating, through brain potentials such as the N400, at which point the information provided by gender-marked words influences the meaning of an utterance. Finally, whether gender maintains its effect in semantic processing in bilinguals (e.g. Spanish/English) will be examined.