The Advantage of First Mention in Korean The Temporal Contributions of Syntactic,Semantic, and Pragmatic Factors |
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Authors: | Sung-il Kim Jae-ho Lee Morton Ann Gernsbacher |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Education, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea;(2) Chung-Ang University, Korea;(3) University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison |
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Abstract: | Using Korean, we investigated how syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors influence the representation of a sentence, in particular, the relative accessibility of different components of a sentence representation. In six experiments, participants performed a probe recognition task after reading each of a series of sentences. We manipulated the rate at which each word of the sentence was presented (250 ms and 500 ms) and the interval between the sentence-final word and the probe-recognition test word (immediate, 500 ms delay, and 1000 ms delay). We also manipulated the syntactic position (subject versus object), semantic role (agent versus patient), and order of mention (first-versus second-mentioned participant) of the probed item. Pragmatic factors (the order of mention) strongly influenced accessibility immediately and through the longest delay, whereas syntactic and semantic factors had little effect. |
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Keywords: | first mention syntax semantics pragmatics Korean structure building framework time course sentence representation |
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