ERPs Research On The Processing Of Chinese Aspect Violation By Native Chinese Speakers And Second Language Speakers

The aspect mark is one of the standard methods used in modern Chinese.For example,the aspect mark"了"indicates the completion of the action,and it can be used with the adverb"已经"to indicate the past time category.In the past,the research on second language processing of tense and aspect mostly focused on Indo-European languages with rich morphological changes.A few scholars who studied Chinese aspect processing only studied native Chinese speakers and did not involve second language processing.This article uses event-related potentials(ERPs)technology to study the processing of Chinese language by L2 speakers of different native language backgrounds.By analyzing and comparing the components of ERPs induced by native speakers and L2 speakers in the processing of aspect violations,the aim is to explore Chinese L2 speakers.Whether the aspect processing mechanism of Chinese is the same or similar to that of native speakers.Research has shown that Thai has a aspect mark similar to Chinese"了"and uses similar rules,while Indonesian has a different aspect mark from Chinese,and there is no aspect mark corresponding to Chinese"了".Therefore,this article divides the subjects into two experimental groups according to their native lang uage background,namely the Thai group and the Indonesian group.In the experiment,we manipulated the agreement and violation of"已经"and"了".The results showed that Indonesian speakers of native language background did not induce either the early left frontal negative wave LAN or the late positive wave P600in the aspect violation.For Thai native speakers,there was only a 450-900ms late positive wave in the style violation of keywords.We think this positive wave is P600.This positive wave may reflect the monitoring and resolution of syntactic repair or conflicts caused by aspect violations.Compared with native speakers,the P600 amplitude of Thai native speakers is weaker.The Indonesian group and the Thai group did not show the LAN-P600 biphasic mode on the keywords,which means that the second-speaking Chinese at least cannot reach the level of automatic processing of native speakers at least in the processing of the completed Chinese.This may be similar to the second language.The speaker’s foreign language proficiency,the similarity between the first language and the second language,and the difficulty of the second language structure are related.These results reveal the similarities and differences between Chinese and other languages in the processing of tense and aspect.