CONEXÕES CONCEPTUAIS: UM ESTUDO DE ERPS SOBRE A INESCAPÁVEL SINTAXE NA SEMÂNTICA

We explore the hypothesis that there are primordial semantic relationships between words, based on qualia, post-syntactic definitional principles internal to the Encyclopedia and that others are weaker because they are discourse dependant . To verify this hypothesis we have formatted the present neurolinguistic ERP extraction experiment with stimulation coming from masked priming protocol comparing four series of word pairs with increasingly weaker semantic relationships. Series 1 stimuli are of the type escola-aluno (school-student); Series 2, praia-calção (beach-trunks); Series 3, cadeirarevólver (chair-gun); Series 4, bataba-parobo (potato-blicket), the latter involving a non-word as target, to justify the task that is required from volunteers to discriminate between word and non-word targets. Our findings resulted in the grouping of Series 1 and 2 in contrast with 3 and 4, and they can be explained through the processing of semantic interpretation of syntactic structures [of semantic processing]. Key-words: ERP; semantic priming; qualia; latency in the semantic reading.