Publication: Exploring the nature of the `subject'-preference: evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese
Exploring the nature of the `subject'-preference: evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese
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Wang, L., Schlesewsky, M., Bickel, B., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2009). Exploring the nature of the `subject’-preference: evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24(7–8), 1180–1226. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960802159937
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In two visual ERP studies, we investigated whether Mandarin Chinese shows a subject-preference in spite of the controversial status of grammatical relations in this language. We compared ERP responses at the position of the verb and the second NP in object-verb-subject (OVS) and subject-verb-object (SVO) structures. While SVO is the basic word order in Chinese and OV with subject-drop is possible, OVS is strongly dispreferred. At the position of the verb, which disambiguated towards an object or a subject reading of NP1, Experiment 1
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- Wang, Luming
- Schlesewsky, Matthias
- Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina
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Wang, L., Schlesewsky, M., Bickel, B., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2009). Exploring the nature of the `subject’-preference: evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24(7–8), 1180–1226. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960802159937
