Referent Predictability Is Affected by Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Chinese

Autor/inn/en	Cheng, Wei; Almor, Amit
Titel	Referent Predictability Is Affected by Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Chinese
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46 (2017) 1, S.157-174 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-016-9430-6
Schlagwörter	Syntax; Chinese; Language Research; Verbs; Prediction; Semantics; Sentences; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? China; Chinesen; Sprachforschung; Vorhersage; Semantik; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	This paper examines the effect of syntactic structures on referent predictability. Focusing on stimulus-experiencer (SE) verbs, we conducted two sentence-completion experiments in Chinese by contrasting SE verbs in three structures (active canonical, active "ba," and passive). The results showed that although verb semantics and discourse coherence relations produce a strong referential biases, the stimulus referent is overall less likely to be rementioned in the active canonical structure than in the other two structures. The findings thus indicate that referent predictability is determined by not only semantic but also syntactic factors. We discuss the theoretical implications for the nature of referent predictability and its relationship with referent accessibility. (As Provided).
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