Effects of Age and Location in Chinese Relative Clauses Processing |
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Authors: | Wenguang He Na Xu Runqing Ji |
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Affiliation: | 1.School of Education,Qufu Normal University,Qufu,China;2.Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science,Beijing,China;3.School of Education,Beijing Sports University,Beijing,China |
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Abstract: | Three experiments investigated Chinese relative clause processing with children, youths and elders using sentence-picture matching and self-paced reading methods. In Experiment 1, we found that object-extracted clause were easier to comprehend than subject-extracted clause , and object-modified relative clause (i.e., object-modified subject-extracted clause(backslash )object-modified object-extracted clause) were difficult to comprehend than subject modified relative clause (subject-modified subject-extracted clause(backslash )subject-modified object-extracted clause). Importantly, this paper also found 5–6.5 ages may be critical for children to comprehend RCs in Chinese. Experiment 2 also showed that S-ORCs were easier to comprehend than S-SRCs for youths and elders. Further, elders have more difficulty comprehending RCs than youths. Experiment 3 indicated that there were no significant differences in difficulty between O-SRCs and O-ORCs, and no differences were found between youths and elders. In general, our findings gave support to predictions of working memory-based theory, and also indicated that RCs processing has an intricate course. Many factors such as syntactic, language specificity, experience, personality, must all be considered in sentence processing. |
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