When Structure Competes with Semantics: Reading Chinese Relative Clauses
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Processing relative clauses in Chinese.
This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject-extracted structures. These results contrast with results from processing other Subject-Verb-Object languages like English, in which object-extracted structures are more complex than subject-extracted structures. A k...
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عنوان ژورنال: Collabra: Psychology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2474-7394
DOI: 10.1525/collabra.131