Effects of case-marking on the anticipatory processing of Korean Sentences
- Title
- Effects of case-marking on the anticipatory processing of Korean Sentences
- Author
- 이미선
- Keywords
- Anticipatory Processing; Case-marking; Dative Noun Phrases; Eye-tracking; Korean
- Issue Date
- 2019-09
- Publisher
- Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul National University
- Citation
- Journal of Cognitive Science, v. 20, no. 3, Page. 339-364
- Abstract
- The goal of this study was to explore the effect of the case-marking information from pre-verbal arguments on the anticipatory processing of Korean sentences. More specifically, it was examined whether the case-markers can be used to predict an upcoming argument even before it is introduced into the string. In our eye-tracking experiment using the visual-world paradigm, 24 adult native speakers of Korean showed significantly more anticipatory eye-movements to the potential referent of a Theme object as soon as hearing the sequence of a nominative-marked NP and a dative-marked NP, as compared to when the second NP is accusative-marked. These results confirm the predictive mechanism of the parsing system and the case effect on the prediction in Korean: that is, guided by the case-marking information which is available earlier in the input, the parser can predict a forthcoming argument and thus activate a structural representation of the currently processed sentence. In this way, a verb-final sentence can be interpreted incrementally and predictively as well at each moment of processing.
- URI
- https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART002504572https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/153724
- ISSN
- 1598-2327; 2158-9216
- DOI
- 10.17791/jcs.2019.20.3.339
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- COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES[S](인문과학대학) > ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE(영어영문학과) > Articles
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