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題名: | Investigating the processing of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from eye-movement data | 作者: | 杜容玥* Tu, Jung-yueh Sung, Yao-Ting Cha, Jih-Ho Wu, Ming-Da Lin, Wei-Chun |
貢獻者: | 華文碩 | 關鍵詞: | Mandarin Chinese ; Relative clauses ; Eye-movement ; Processing asymmetry ; Sentence complexity | 日期: | 2016 | 上傳時間: | 2-三月-2020 | 摘要: | A number of previous studies on Chinese relative clauses (RC) have reported conflicting results on processing asymmetry. This study aims to revisit the prevalent debate on whether subject-extracted RCs (SRC) or object-extracted RCs (ORC) are easier to process by using the eye-movement technique. In the current study, the data are analyzed in terms of the gaze duration and regression of eye-movement in three critical areas: head noun, embedded verb, and RC-modifying noun phrase as subject. The results show an ORC preference for the processing of RC structures, which supports the word-order account and the Dependency Locality Theory, and a better cross-clausal integration for SRC, which supports the perspective-shift account. The processing asymmetry in Chinese RCs are discussed under relevant theoretical accounts, such as structure-based, memory-based, and perspective shift accounts. We argue that the findings are associated with the syntactic nature of Chinese (a head-initial language with pre-nominal RCs). | 關聯: | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Vol.45, No.5, pp.1089-113 | 資料類型: | article | DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-015-9394-y |
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