Processing Chinese Relative Clauses: Evidence for the Subject-Relative Advantage
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Processing Chinese Relative Clauses: Evidence for the Subject-Relative Advantage
A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented surprising evidence that object relatives in Chinese are easier to process than subject relatives. We carried out three self-paced reading experiments that attempted to replicate these results. Two of our three studies fou...
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Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA c School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology, China Dept. of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington, USA f School of Mathematics and Statistics,...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077006