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Researchers found a subject-extracted relative clause (SRC) advantage in processing Chinese object-modifying (OM) relative clauses. This advantage is linked to functional connectivity, not just brain activation, supporting the structural distance hypothesis.

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Area of Science:

Linguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology

Background:

Relative clauses (RCs) allow recursive sentence embedding.
Subject-modifying (SM) RCs have been used to study processing asymmetries between subject-extracted RCs (SRCs) and object-extracted RCs (ORCs).
Previous studies may be confounded by differing initial sequences in SM-SRCs and SM-ORCs.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate processing differences between object-modifying subject-extracted RCs (OM-SRCs) and object-modifying object-extracted RCs (OM-ORCs) in Chinese.
To examine brain activation and functional connectivity during the processing of these specific RC types.
To test the structural distance hypothesis regarding RC processing.

Main Methods:

Participants read OM clauses (OM-SRCs and OM-ORCs) in Chinese sentences during fMRI scanning.
Analyzed brain activation patterns.
Conducted Granger causality analyses to assess interregional brain connectivity.

Main Results:

No significant differences in brain activation were found between OM-SRCs and OM-ORCs.
Granger causality analyses revealed greater ORC-specific connectivity than SRC-specific connectivity.
Specifically, increased connectivity from the left inferior frontal gyrus to the superior temporal gyrus was observed for ORCs, suggesting greater interregional interaction.

Conclusions:

Processing Chinese OM-RC sentences shows a subject-extracted relative clause (SRC) advantage.
This SRC advantage is primarily reflected in functional connectivity, rather than activation differences.
Findings support the structural distance hypothesis in relative clause processing.