Animacy effects in Chinese relative clause processing
| Autor: | Fuyun Wu, Elsi Kaiser, Elaine S. Andersen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
business.industry Head (linguistics) Computer science Object (grammar) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology computer.software_genre Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics language.human_language Education Noun Subject (grammar) language Artificial intelligence Animacy business computer Natural language processing Relative clause |
| Zdroj: | Language and Cognitive Processes. 27:1489-1524 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0732 0169-0965 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01690965.2011.614423 |
| Popis: | Prior research on relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese has led to conflicting results regarding ease of processing subject-extracted RCs (SRCs) versus object-extracted RCs (ORCs) and has often used animacy configurations that are rare in corpora. Building on animacy patterns observed in a corpus, we used self-paced reading to explore how animacy influences real-time processing of Chinese RCs. Experiment 1 tested SRCs, and found marginal facilitation effects with animate heads (subjects) and inanimate objects. Experiment 2 tested ORCs and found significant facilitation effects with inanimate head (objects). Experiment 3 showed that when the subject is animate and the object inanimate, ORCs are as easy to process as SRCs, but when the subject is inanimate and the object is animate, SRCs are processed faster. Thus, the animacy of the head and the embedded noun must be taken into account when evaluating processing ease. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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