Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation
Background: Verbal communication comprises the retrieval of semantic and syntactic information elicited by various kinds of words (i.e., parts of speech) in a sentence. Content words, such as nouns and verbs, convey essential information about the overall meaning (semantics) of a sentence, wherea...
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| description | Background: Verbal communication comprises the retrieval of semantic
and syntactic information elicited by various kinds of words (i.e., parts of
speech) in a sentence. Content words, such as nouns and verbs, convey essential
information about the overall meaning (semantics) of a sentence, whereas function
words, such as prepositions and pronouns, carry less meaning and support the
syntax of the sentence. Methods: This study aimed to identify neural
correlates of the differential information retrieval processes for several parts
of speech (i.e., content and function words, nouns and verbs, and objects and
subjects) via electroencephalography performed during English spoken-sentence
comprehension in thirteen participants with normal hearing. Recently,
phoneme-related information has become a potential acoustic feature to
investigate human speech processing. Therefore, in this study, we examined the
importance of various parts of speech over sentence processing using information
about the onset time of phonemes. Results: The distinction in
the strength of cortical responses in language-related brain regions provides the
neurological evidence that content words, nouns, and objects are dominant
compared to function words, verbs, and subjects in spoken sentences,
respectively. Conclusions: The findings of this study may
provide insights into the different contributions of certain types of words over
others to the overall process of sentence understanding. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1645f821730447959a4d8b0db9d5f7ee2022-12-22T00:17:38ZengIMR PressJournal of Integrative Neuroscience0219-63522022-01-0121102910.31083/j.jin2101029S0219-6352(22)00289-3Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representationTrang-Le Thi0Youngmin Na1Inyong Choi2Jihwan Woo3Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan, 44610 Ulsan, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan, 44610 Ulsan, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USADepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan, 44610 Ulsan, Republic of KoreaBackground: Verbal communication comprises the retrieval of semantic and syntactic information elicited by various kinds of words (i.e., parts of speech) in a sentence. Content words, such as nouns and verbs, convey essential information about the overall meaning (semantics) of a sentence, whereas function words, such as prepositions and pronouns, carry less meaning and support the syntax of the sentence. Methods: This study aimed to identify neural correlates of the differential information retrieval processes for several parts of speech (i.e., content and function words, nouns and verbs, and objects and subjects) via electroencephalography performed during English spoken-sentence comprehension in thirteen participants with normal hearing. Recently, phoneme-related information has become a potential acoustic feature to investigate human speech processing. Therefore, in this study, we examined the importance of various parts of speech over sentence processing using information about the onset time of phonemes. Results: The distinction in the strength of cortical responses in language-related brain regions provides the neurological evidence that content words, nouns, and objects are dominant compared to function words, verbs, and subjects in spoken sentences, respectively. Conclusions: The findings of this study may provide insights into the different contributions of certain types of words over others to the overall process of sentence understanding.https://article.imrpress.com/journal/JIN/21/1/10.31083/j.jin2101029/1757-448X-21-1-029.pdfcontent wordsfunction wordsphoneme-related eegsentence comprehension |
| spellingShingle | Trang-Le Thi Youngmin Na Inyong Choi Jihwan Woo Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation Journal of Integrative Neuroscience content words function words phoneme-related eeg sentence comprehension |
| title | Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation |
| title_full | Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation |
| title_fullStr | Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation |
| title_short | Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation |
| title_sort | revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme related representation |
| topic | content words function words phoneme-related eeg sentence comprehension |
| url | https://article.imrpress.com/journal/JIN/21/1/10.31083/j.jin2101029/1757-448X-21-1-029.pdf |
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