Is There a Processing Preference for Object Relative Clauses in Chinese? Evidence From ERPs

Is There a Processing Preference for Object Relative Clauses in Chinese? Evidence From ERPs

A consistent finding across head-initial languages, such as English, is that subject relative clauses (SRCs) are easier to comprehend than object relative clauses (ORCs). However, several studies in Mandarin Chinese, a head-final language, revealed the opposite pattern, which might be modulated by w...

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Main Authors: Talat Bulut, Shih-Kuen Cheng, Kun-Yu Xu, Daisy L. Hung, Denise H. Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
relative clauses
Chinese sentence comprehension
working memory
integration resources
storage resources
linear distance
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00995/full

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