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Animacy effects in Chinese relative clause processing
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wu, Fuyun Kaiser, Elsi Andersen, Elaine S. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Starting Page | 1489 |
| Ending Page | 1524 |
| Page Count | 36 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/01690965.2011.614423 |
| Volume Number | 27 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~emkaiser/Wu-etal-LCP2011-w.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~emkaiser/WuKaiserAndersen-2009-WECOLAnimacy.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.614423 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
