When Structure Competes with Semantics: Reading Chinese Relative Clauses

An ongoing debate in Chinese psycholinguistics is whether subject-relative clauses or object-relative clauses are more difficult to process. The current study asks what happens when structure and plausibility are pitted against each other in Chinese relative clause processing. Chinese relative claus...

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Main Authors: Peiyun Zhou, Yun Yao, Kiel Christianson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2018-06-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/131