An empirical study on complex predicate processing: Collaboration of theoretical linguistics and the brain science of language

我们进行了事件相关电位（ERP）测量实验，旨在揭示词汇水平语言加工的心理和神经机制。更具体地说，我们研究了所谓的sase-causative的处理，一种复杂的谓词，表现出双分句的属性，和动词的共轭模式，并得到的结果表明，两种不同的机制，基于规则的计算和联想记忆在工作中的字级处理。

We conducted Event Related Potential (ERP) measurement experiments with the aim at revealing the mental and neurological mechanisms employed in the word-level language processing. More specifically, we examined the processing of the so-called sase-causative, a type of complex predicates which exhibit bi-clausal properties, and of verb conjugation patterns, and obtained results suggesting that two different mechanisms of rule-based computation and associative memory are at work in the word-level processing.