Subject Preference, Head Animacy and Lexical Cues: A Corpus Study of Relative Clauses in Chinese
Subject Preference, Head Animacy and Lexical Cues: A Corpus Study of Relative Clauses in Chinese
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主语偏好、中心词活力与词汇线索：汉语关系从句的语料库研究
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2010
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通讯作者：
E. Andersen
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作者：
Fuyun Wu;E. Kaiser;E. Andersen
本研究考察了影响汉语关系从句加工频率和加工难易程度的因素。我们在中国树库5.0语料库中对及物动动词的及物动词关系式进行了语料库研究，考察了影响加工简易性的两个因素：及物动词类型和量词位置。我们的语料库分析表明，主语修饰关系比宾语修饰关系更常见，并且在每种类型中，主语间隙关系结构比宾语结构关系结构更常见，这与汉语在主语位置上偏爱主语间隙关系结构与英语相似。在Pu(2007)的基础上，我们讨论了这些模式与中心名词的生命性之间的关系。除了RC类型，分类器的位置也被认为影响处理的简易性。我们的语料库揭示了主语间隙和宾语间隙关系中量词分布的不对称模式，我们假设这遵循了与预期加工和词汇通达有关的两个加工原则。我们的研究结果有助于揭示普通话RC加工研究中的一些争议。
This research examines factors that influence the frequency and ease of processing of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese. We conduct a corpus study of RCs with transitive action verbs in the Chinese Treebank corpus 5.0 and investigate two factors that have been argued to influence processing ease: RC type and classifier position. Our corpus analyses show that subject-modifying RCs are more frequent than object-modifying RCs and that within each type, subject-gapped RCs are more frequent than object-gapped RCs (SS > SO > OS > OO), which fits with claims that Mandarin Chinese resembles English in preferring subject-gapped RCs in subject position. Building on Pu (2007), we discuss how these patterns relate to the animacy of the head noun. In addition to RC type, classifier position has also been claimed to influence ease of processing. Our corpus reveals an asymmetrical pattern of classifier distribution in subject-gapped and object-gapped RCs, which we hypothesize follows from two processing principles having to do with anticipatory processing and lexical access. Our results help shed light on some controversies in the research on Mandarin RC processing.
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4.3
作者：
Gennari, Silvia P.;MacDonald, Maryellen C.
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MacDonald, Maryellen C.