Publications-Periodical Articles

Article View/Open

Publication Export

Google ScholarTM

NCCU Library

Citation Infomation

Related Publications in TAIR

題名 The influence of syntactic category and semantic constraints on lexical ambiguity resolution: An eye movement study of processing Chinese homographs.
作者 蔡介立
Chen, Po-Heng;Tsai, Jie-Li
貢獻者 心理系
日期 2015-07
上傳時間 10-Nov-2015 16:08:24 (UTC+8)
摘要 The purpose of the present study is twofold: (1) To examine whether the syntactic category constraint can determine the semantic resolution of Chinese syntactic category ambiguous words; and (2) to investigate whether the syntactic category of alternative meanings of Chinese homographs can influence the subordinate bias effect (SBE) during lexical ambiguity resolution. In the present study, four types of Chinese biased homographs (NN, VV, VN, and NV) were embedded into syntactically and semantically subordinate-biased sentences. Each homograph was assigned a frequency-matched unambiguous word as control, which could fit into the same sentence frame. Participants’ eye movements were recorded as they read each sentence. In general, the results showed that in a subordinate-biased context, (1) the SBE for the four types of homograph was significant only in the second-pass reading on the post-target words and (2) numerically, the NV homographs revealed a larger effect size of SBE than VN homographs on both target and post-target words. Our findings support the constraint-satisfaction models, suggesting that the syntactic category constraint is not the only factor influencing the semantic resolution of syntactic category ambiguous words, which is opposed to the prediction of the syntax-first models.
關聯 Language and Linguistics., Vol.16, No.4, pp.555-586
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1606822X15583239
dc.contributor 心理系-
dc.creator (作者) 蔡介立-
dc.creator (作者) Chen, Po-Heng;Tsai, Jie-Li-
dc.date (日期) 2015-07-
dc.date.accessioned 10-Nov-2015 16:08:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 10-Nov-2015 16:08:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 10-Nov-2015 16:08:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/79376-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) The purpose of the present study is twofold: (1) To examine whether the syntactic category constraint can determine the semantic resolution of Chinese syntactic category ambiguous words; and (2) to investigate whether the syntactic category of alternative meanings of Chinese homographs can influence the subordinate bias effect (SBE) during lexical ambiguity resolution. In the present study, four types of Chinese biased homographs (NN, VV, VN, and NV) were embedded into syntactically and semantically subordinate-biased sentences. Each homograph was assigned a frequency-matched unambiguous word as control, which could fit into the same sentence frame. Participants’ eye movements were recorded as they read each sentence. In general, the results showed that in a subordinate-biased context, (1) the SBE for the four types of homograph was significant only in the second-pass reading on the post-target words and (2) numerically, the NV homographs revealed a larger effect size of SBE than VN homographs on both target and post-target words. Our findings support the constraint-satisfaction models, suggesting that the syntactic category constraint is not the only factor influencing the semantic resolution of syntactic category ambiguous words, which is opposed to the prediction of the syntax-first models.-
dc.format.extent 439882 bytes-
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf-
dc.relation (關聯) Language and Linguistics., Vol.16, No.4, pp.555-586-
dc.title (題名) The influence of syntactic category and semantic constraints on lexical ambiguity resolution: An eye movement study of processing Chinese homographs.-
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1177/1606822X15583239-
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1606822X15583239-