Cerebral Activation in production of Korean inflectional and derivational affixes

한국어 굴절 어미와 파생 접사 산출 관련 대뇌 영역

The present study was planned to investigate the cortical activation correlated with producing morphologically complex Korean verbs by using. fMRI technique. In this study two derivational affixes and two inflectional affixes were selected: pre-final ending and final ending for inflectional affix and passive affix and causative affix for derivational affix. Two Experiment were conducted. The results of two Experiments suggest a possibility that process of pre-final ending is different from final ending.