TY - JOUR
T1 - Cues as Functional Constraints on Sentence Processing in Chinese
AU - Li, Ping
AU - Bates, Elizabeth
AU - Liu, Hua
AU - MacWhinney, Brian
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here was supported by the Human Frontier Science Program Organization. The construction of the experimental system
Funding Information:
was supported by a grant from NICHHD, and some of the expenses of data collection were provided by a grant from NIDCD. The authors wish to thank the granting organizations and the following institutions for their support: Center for Research in Language and Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego and the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University. We are grateful to Darius Clynes, Larry Juarez, Edward Yang, and Shuhong Zhu for their assistance to our experiments.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - The language-specific properties of Chinese provide a unique testgro-und for theories in sentence processing. This chapter examines the psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying Chinese sentence comprehension processes with results from two experiments. First, an off-line experiment was designed to investigate how Chinese speakers use word order and animacy cues in processing simple sentences. The results are largely compatible with previous studies in that Chinese speakers rely more on animacy than on word order. Second, an on-line experiment was designed to tap into the role of word order, animacy, the object marker BA, and the passive marker BEI in real-time processing of Chinese sentences. Consistent with the results from the off-line experiment, this experiment shows that different cues play different roles in the interpretation process, but they interact with each other as a function of competition and convergence that correspond to the patterns of cue use in the language. These studies also provide clues to the dynamic properties of sentence processing in general
AB - The language-specific properties of Chinese provide a unique testgro-und for theories in sentence processing. This chapter examines the psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying Chinese sentence comprehension processes with results from two experiments. First, an off-line experiment was designed to investigate how Chinese speakers use word order and animacy cues in processing simple sentences. The results are largely compatible with previous studies in that Chinese speakers rely more on animacy than on word order. Second, an on-line experiment was designed to tap into the role of word order, animacy, the object marker BA, and the passive marker BEI in real-time processing of Chinese sentences. Consistent with the results from the off-line experiment, this experiment shows that different cues play different roles in the interpretation process, but they interact with each other as a function of competition and convergence that correspond to the patterns of cue use in the language. These studies also provide clues to the dynamic properties of sentence processing in general
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U2 - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61893-2
DO - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61893-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956763097
SN - 0166-4115
VL - 90
SP - 207
EP - 234
JO - Advances in Psychology
JF - Advances in Psychology
IS - C
ER -