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ERIC Number: EJ1148246
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Aug
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0090-6905
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Disambiguation and Integration in Korean Relative Clause Processing
Mansbridge, Michael; Park, Sunju; Tamaoka, Katsuo
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v46 n4 p827-845 Aug 2017
Previous studies on Korean relative clauses (RC) show that, with respect to processing, object-extracted relative clauses (ORC) are more difficult to process at the head noun than subject-extracted relative clauses within temporarily ambiguous contexts. ORCs, however, are predicted by experience-based processing models to incur a greater processing cost during early processing stages at the RC verb, since it is a likely locus of disambiguation for RCs in Korean, and because ORCs are a less frequent structure. Consequently, the current study investigates whether processing difficulty for ORCs manifests itself at the RC verb using eye-tracking methods, a simple sentence structure and a sentential-decision task. The results revealed significantly increased go-past reading times for ORCs at the RC verb. We believe this is a result of a less frequent structure being more difficult to parse during disambiguation. Accordingly, experience-based models of processing can accurately predict difficulty for ORCs in Korean.
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Language: English
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