Relative clause processing in Mandarin: Evidence from the maze task

doi:10.1080/01690965.2011.578394

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	Relative clause processing in Mandarin: Evidence from the maze task
	Qiao, Xiaomei 1; Shen, Liyao 1; Forster, Kenneth 2
刊名	LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES
	2012
卷号	27 期号:4 页码:611-630
关键词	Sentence processing Relative clauses Chinese Maze task
ISSN号	0169-0965
DOI	10.1080/01690965.2011.578394
英文摘要	Contradictory results have been found in Chinese as to whether subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. One major disagreement concerns the region where the difficulty arises. In this study, a "maze" task was used to localise processing difficulty by requiring participants to make a choice between two alternatives at every single position of the sentence. The results confirmed that object relatives are indeed easier than corresponding subject relatives in the relative clause region, although this difference is reversed in the subsequent relative marker region. No difference was found in the head noun position. It is argued that these results are a function of the fact that the task forces participants to adopt a strict incremental processing mode, whereas self-paced reading allows more freedom. Implications for experimental techniques for studying sentence processing are discussed.
WOS研究方向	Linguistics ; Psychology
语种	英语
出版者	PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000303579000006
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/2195]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Qiao, Xiaomei
作者单位	1.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Foreign Languages Dept, Shanghai, Peoples R China; 2.Univ Arizona, Dept Psychol, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Qiao, Xiaomei,Shen, Liyao,Forster, Kenneth. Relative clause processing in Mandarin: Evidence from the maze task[J]. LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES,2012,27(4):611-630.
APA	Qiao, Xiaomei,Shen, Liyao,&Forster, Kenneth.(2012).Relative clause processing in Mandarin: Evidence from the maze task.LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES,27(4),611-630.
MLA	Qiao, Xiaomei,et al."Relative clause processing in Mandarin: Evidence from the maze task".LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES 27.4(2012):611-630.