Processing relative clauses in Chinese
Processing relative clauses in Chinese
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DOI：
10.1016/s0010-0277(03)00124-0
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发表时间：
2003-11-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Gibson, E
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作者：
Hsiao, F;Gibson, E
本文报道了一项自定节奏的汉语阅读研究的结果，结果表明，宾语提取的关系从句结构比相应的主语提取的结构要简单。这些结果与英语等其他主谓宾语语言的处理结果形成了鲜明对比，在这些语言中，宾语提取的结构比主语提取的结构更复杂。汉语和其他主谓宾语在语序上的一个关键区别是汉语关系从句在中心名词之前。由于这种词序差异，结果遵循基于资源的句子复杂性理论，根据该理论，预测句法中心词以形成语法句子存在存储成本。这一结果也与一种理论相一致，根据该理论，人们在处理词序与主句中的词序相匹配的嵌入从句时难度较小。一些对中文文本的语料库分析提供的结果限制了可能的基于频率的理论的类别。重要的是，这些结果表明，从主语位置提取并不是本质上容易的：根据主句和关系从句中的语序，从宾语位置提取在某些情况下可能更容易处理。(C)2003爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
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 key word-order difference between Chinese and other Subject-Verb-Object languages is that Chinese relative clauses precede their head nouns. Because of this word order difference, the results follow from a resource-based theory of sentence complexity, according to which there is a storage cost associated with predicting syntactic heads in order to form a grammatical sentence. The results are also consistent with a theory according to which people have less difficulty processing embedded clauses whose word order matches the word order in main clauses. Some corpus analyses of Chinese texts provide results that constrain the classes of possible frequency-based theories. Critically, these results demonstrate that there is nothing intrinsically easy about extracting from subject position: depending on the word order in the main clause and in a relative clause, extraction from object position can be easier to process in some circumstances. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.