An ERP Study of the Object Preference in Processing Chinese Relative Clauses

    在线阅读 下载PDF 导出详情
    摘要 Throughanevent-relatedpotential(ERP)study,weexaminedtheprocessingmechanismsoffourtypesofChinese(Mandarin)relativeclauses(RCs),namelysubjectsubject-extractedrelativeclause(SSR),subjectobject-extractedrelativeclause(SOR),objectsubject-extractedrelativeclause(OSR),andobjectobject-extractedrelativeclause(OOR)totesttheuniversalityandlanguagespecificityofRCcomprehensionprocesses.Theresultsofthisstudysupportapreferenceforobject-extractedRCsmodifyingboththesubjectandobjectofasentence,i.e.,SORsandOORs.Inparticular,ERPresultsshowedstrongerP600effectsintheRCregionforSSRscomparedwithSORs,whichwearguereflectsacanonicalwordordertheory.StrongerN400effectswereobservedforverbscomparedwithnouns,reflectingeasierunderstandingfornouns.ERPresultsfromthematrixclauseobjectandtherelativizer'de'showedstrongerP600effectsinSSRscomparedwithSORs,suggestingthematicstructureeffectsonsyntacticconstructionandtheprocessingpreferenceofthewholesentence.
    机构地区 不详
    出版日期 2017年01月11日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
    Baidu
    map