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Plausibility and Syntactic Reanalysis in Processing Novel Noun-Noun Combinations during Chinese Reading: Evidence from Native and Non-Native Speakers
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Scientific Studies of Reading . 2022 26(5):390-408. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- We aimed to tackle the question about the time course of plausibility effect in on-line processing of Chinese nouns in temporarily ambiguous structures, and whether L2ers can immediately use the plausibility information generated from classifier-noun associations in analyzing ambiguous structures. Two eye-tracking experiments were conducted to explore how native Chinese speakers (Experiment 1) and high-proficiency Dutch-Chinese learners (Experiment 2) on-line process 4-character novel noun-noun combinations in Chinese. In each pair of nominal phrases (Numeral+Classifier+Noun1+Noun2), the plausibility of Classifier-Noun1 varied (plausible vs. implausible) while the whole nominal phrases were always plausible. Results showed that the plausibility of Classifier-Noun1 associations had an immediate effect on Noun1, and a reversed effect on Noun2 for both groups of participants. These findings indicated that plausibility plays an immediate role in incremental semantic integration during on-line processing of Chinese. Similar to native Chinese speakers, high-proficiency L2ers can also use the plausibility information of classifier-noun associations in syntactic reanalysis.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1088-8438 and 1532-799X
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Scientific Studies of Reading
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1366047
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2021.2020796