The Role of Animacy and Structural Information in Relative Clause Attachment: Evidence From Chinese

The Role of Animacy and Structural Information in Relative Clause Attachment: Evidence From Chinese

We report one production and one comprehension experiment investigating the effect of animacy in relative clause attachment in Chinese. Experiment 1 involved a fill-in-the-blank task that manipulated the order of an animate noun phrase in a complex NP construction. The results showed that while low...

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Main Authors: Nayoung Kwon, Deborah Ong, Hongyue Chen, Aili Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
animacy
Chinese
relative clause
attachment ambiguity
SR/OR asymmetry
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01576/full

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