Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.

A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented surprising evidence that object relatives in Chinese are easier to process than subject relatives. We carried out three self-...

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Autores principales:	Shravan Vasishth, Zhong Chen, Qiang Li, Gueilan Guo
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5fc56d3013244bb180f93ffdc11a3fc02021-11-18T08:52:53ZProcessing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0077006https://doaj.org/article/5fc56d3013244bb180f93ffdc11a3fc02013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24098575/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented surprising evidence that object relatives in Chinese are easier to process than subject relatives. We carried out three self-paced reading experiments that attempted to replicate these results. Two of our three studies found a subject-relative preference, and the third study found an object-relative advantage. Using a random effects bayesian meta-analysis of fifteen studies (including our own), we show that the overall current evidence for the subject-relative advantage is quite strong (approximate posterior probability of a subject-relative advantage given the data: 78-80%). We argue that retrieval/integration based accounts would have difficulty explaining all three experimental results. These findings are important because they narrow the theoretical space by limiting the role of an important class of explanation-retrieval/integration cost-at least for relative clause processing in Chinese.Shravan VasishthZhong ChenQiang LiGueilan GuoPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 10, p e77006 (2013)
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description	A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented surprising evidence that object relatives in Chinese are easier to process than subject relatives. We carried out three self-paced reading experiments that attempted to replicate these results. Two of our three studies found a subject-relative preference, and the third study found an object-relative advantage. Using a random effects bayesian meta-analysis of fifteen studies (including our own), we show that the overall current evidence for the subject-relative advantage is quite strong (approximate posterior probability of a subject-relative advantage given the data: 78-80%). We argue that retrieval/integration based accounts would have difficulty explaining all three experimental results. These findings are important because they narrow the theoretical space by limiting the role of an important class of explanation-retrieval/integration cost-at least for relative clause processing in Chinese.
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title	Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.
title_short	Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.
title_full	Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.
title_fullStr	Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.
title_full_unstemmed	Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.
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Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.

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