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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

An EEG Analysis of Honorification in Japanese: Human Hierarchical Relationships Coded in Language.

Shingo Tokimoto, Yayoi Miyaoka, Naoko Tokimoto

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Shingo TokimotoDepartment of English Language Studies, Mejiro University, Tokyo, Japan.
Yayoi MiyaokaFaculty of Liberal Arts, Hiroshima University of Economics, Hiroshima, Japan.
Naoko TokimotoDepartment of Policy Management, Shobi University, Saitama, Japan.
Hiroshima University of Economics · JPMejiro University · JPShobi University · JP

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Abstract

This study examines the neural substrate of the understanding of human relationships in verbal communication with Japanese honorific sentences as experimental materials. We manipulated two types of Japanese verbs specifically used to represent respect for others, i.e., exalted and humble verbs, which represent respect for the person in the subject and the person in the object, respectively. We visually presented appropriate and anomalous sentences containing the two types of verbs and analyzed the electroencephalogram elicited by the verbs. We observed significant parietal negativity at a latency of approximately 400 ms for anomalous verbs compared with appropriate verbs. This parietal negativity could be a manifestation of the pragmatic process used to integrate the linguistic forms with the human relationships represented in the sentences. The topographies of these event-related potentials (ERPs) corresponded well with those of ERPs for two second-person pronouns in Chinese (plain

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dipole fittingevent- related potentialevent-related spectral perturbationhuman relationshipindependent component clusteringJapanese honorificationN400social cognition

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