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Disambiguation and Integration in Korean Relative Clause Processing.
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Journal of psycholinguistic research [J Psycholinguist Res] 2017 Aug; Vol. 46 (4), pp. 827-845. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Previous studies on Korean relative clauses (RC) show that, with respect to processing, object-extracted relative clauses (ORC) are more difficult to process at the head noun than subject-extracted relative clauses within temporarily ambiguous contexts. ORCs, however, are predicted by experience-based processing models to incur a greater processing cost during early processing stages at the RC verb, since it is a likely locus of disambiguation for RCs in Korean, and because ORCs are a less frequent structure. Consequently, the current study investigates whether processing difficulty for ORCs manifests itself at the RC verb using eye-tracking methods, a simple sentence structure and a sentential-decision task. The results revealed significantly increased go-past reading times for ORCs at the RC verb. We believe this is a result of a less frequent structure being more difficult to parse during disambiguation. Accordingly, experience-based models of processing can accurately predict difficulty for ORCs in Korean.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1573-6555
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of psycholinguistic research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27943081
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-016-9461-z