An fMRI Study of L2 Processing of Korean Scrambling by Native E nglish Speakers

• 영문명: An fMRI Study of L2 Processing of Korean Scrambling by Native E nglish Speakers
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Haeil Park
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』제30권 1호, 25~43쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.02.28

영문 초록

This study investigates neural correlates of L2 sentence comprehension, focusing on a particular syntactic operation of Korean scrambling and using a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Korean scrambled sentences known to undergo syntactic movement are presented to native English speakers who are highly proficient in L2 Korean in a visual comprehension task and compared to carefully matched control sentences. I found that scrambled sentences as compared with canonical sentences elicited increased activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus(or Broca’s area) and dorsal prefrontal cortex, which was consistent with a previous study utilizing a native Japanese visual comprehension task. This finding suggests that increased proficiency leads to native-like syntactic processing.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Methodology

3. Results

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

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키워드

Korean scrambling sentence comprehension fMRI Broca’s area L2 processing