#3298. The roles of object and action, and concreteness and imageability, in the distinction between nouns and verbs: An ERP study on monosyllabic words in Chinese

October 2026publication date
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Linguistics and Language;
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Cognitive Neuroscience;
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Abstract:
The dissociation between nouns and verbs has been reported in behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging studies. Regarding the semantic accounts, it is also unknown whether the word class effect should be attributed to differences in object and action, or in concreteness and imageability, associated with nouns and verbs. With tight matching of stimuli and the use of event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the neural processing of monosyllabic nouns and verbs that were presented without context. These results showed that the distinction between nouns and verbs persists even after concreteness and imageability are matched, revealing that the semantic account for the word class effect might arise from the contrast of object and action rather than the concreteness and imageability effect.
Keywords:
Concreteness & imageability; Monosyllabic words; Object vs. action; Word class effect

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