Children's assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences.
Children's assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jml.2013.08.002
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发表时间:
2013-11-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Snedeker J
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作者:
Huang YT;Zheng X;Meng X;Snedeker J
Children’s difficulty understanding passives in English has been attributed to the syntactic complexity, overall frequency, cue reliability, and/or incremental processing of this construction. To understand the role of these factors, we used the visual-world paradigm to examine comprehension in Mandarin Chinese where passives are infrequent but signaled by a highly valid marker (BEI). Eye-movements during sentences indicated that these markers triggered incremental role assignments in adults and 5-year-olds. Actions after sentences indicated that passives were often misinterpreted as actives when markers appeared after the referential noun (“Seal BEI it eat” → The seal is eaten by it). However, they were more likely to be interpreted correctly when markers appeared before (“It BEI seal eat” → It is eaten by the seal). The actions and the eye-movements suggest that for both adults and children, interpretations of passive are easier when they do not require revision of an earlier role assignment.
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