چکیده:
There are differences between males and females during language processing, but how the brain functions to support this difference is still controversial. It has been hypothesized that language functions are more strongly left-lateralized in males, whereas they are represented more bilaterally in females. However, insufficient evidence exists to prove it. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of gender on syntactic processing using the analysis of electroencephalography signals. This approach provides the opportunity to identify the difference between males and females in event-related potential (ERP) components associated with syntactic processing. Hence, 22 highly proficient monolingual Persian speakers (11 females) participated in this experiment. Using auditory syntactic violation paradigm, event-related potentials were extracted from the final syllable of Persian sentences in MATLAB software. Then, the mean amplitudes were analyzed using a repeated measures ANOVA in SPSS-26 software. The current electroencephalographic findings revealed that although females exhibited a larger signal amplitude and in ungrammatical stimuli as compared to grammatical stimuli in the 500-700-ms interval, but the difference was not statistically significant (P > 0.05). In addition, the amplitude of P600 was widely detected to be left hemisphere dominant, however, no gender-related differences were found. In general, based on these findings, it can be concluded that syntactic processing in highly proficient males and females is independent of the gender variable.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Electroencephalographic evidence from monolingual Persian speakers Simin Meykadeh PhD in Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Abstract Men and women process language differently, but the way the brain functions to support this difference is still controversial.
Event-related potentials were extracted using a syntactic violation auditory paradigm in the final syllables of Persian sentences in MATLAB software, and mean amplitude values were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA in SPSS-26 software.
In fMRI/PET studies, no consensus was reached regarding the reported differences in neural activity between men and women during language processing (refer to the original article for more details).
In contrast, EEG studies have consistently reported a latency in auditory task-based potentials in the 400 millisecond range (MMN, P400, P2, N1) after stimulus onset for women compared to men, but no gender difference in signal 7 amplitude was observed in 8 EEG studies.
scalp distribution 124 | Linguistics | Vol. 11 | No. 20 | Autumn and Winter 2024 In the field of subject-verb agreement, studies using event-related potentials have been conducted in SOV languages, and the patterns of 1 ergative-absolutive (Basque language)2, 3 split-ergative (Hindi language)4, and 5 nominative-accusative (Persian language)6 have been investigated.
Therefore, the main 1 reanalysis question of the present study is whether the mean amplitude of the syntactic P600 component in the 500-700 millisecond range is the same in monolingual Persian-speaking women and men who possess high proficiency in their native language.
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