Status: Bibliographieeintrag
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Verfasst von: | Gerwien, Johannes [VerfasserIn]  |
Titel: | The interpretation and prediction of event participants in Mandarin verb-final active and passive sentences |
Verf.angabe: | Johannes Gerwien |
E-Jahr: | 2019 |
Jahr: | 04 November 2019 |
Umfang: | 27 S. |
Fussnoten: | Gesehen am 14.11.2019 |
Titel Quelle: | Enthalten in: Journal of cultural cognitive science |
Ort Quelle: | [Singapore] : Springer Singapore, 2017 |
Jahr Quelle: | 2019 |
Band/Heft Quelle: | 3(2019), 2, Seite 257-283 |
ISSN Quelle: | 2520-1018 |
Abstract: | The role of the markers bèi and bǎ for thematic role assignment in Chinese NP1-marker-NP2-V sentences was investigated in adult native speakers. While word order is identical, thematic roles are distributed reversely in these structures [patient-bèi-agent, (passive); agent-bǎ-patient, (active)]. If Mandarin speakers interpret NP1 as the agent of an event, viewing behavior was expected to differ between conditions for NP1-objects, indicating the revision of initial role assignment in the case of bèi. Given reliability differences between markers for role assignment, differences in anticipatory eye movements to NP2-objects were expected. 16 visual stimuli were combined with 16 sets of sentence pairs; one pair partner featuring a bèi-, the other a bǎ-structure. Growth curve analysis of 28 participants’ eye movements revealed no attention differences for NP1-objects. However, anticipatory eye movements to NP2-objects differed. This suggests that a stable event representation is constructed only after NP1 and the marker have been processed, but before NP2. As a control variable, syntactic/semantic complexity of NP1 was manipulated. The differences obtained indicate that the visual world paradigm is in principle sensitive to detect language-induced processing costs, which was taken to validate the null-finding for NP1. Interestingly, NP1 complexity also modulated predictive processing. Findings are discussed with respect to a differentiation between interpretative and predictive aspects incremental processing. |
DOI: | doi:10.1007/s41809-019-00049-x |
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Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00049-x |
| DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00049-x |
Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Forschungsdaten Gerwien, Johannes: The interpretation and prediction of event participants in Mandarin verb-final active and passive sentences [dataset] |
Sach-SW: | Agent-first strategy |
| Eye movements |
| Mandarin passive |
| Predictive processing |
| Semantic complexity |
| Thematic role assignment |
K10plus-PPN: | 168191378X |
Verknüpfungen: | → Zeitschrift |
¬The¬ interpretation and prediction of event participants in Mandarin verb-final active and passive sentences / Gerwien, Johannes [VerfasserIn]; 04 November 2019 (Online-Ressource)
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