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Mandarin Chinese is typologically unusual among the world’s languages in having flexible word order despite a near absence of inflectional morphology. These features of Mandarin challenge conventional linguistic notions such as subject and object and the divide between syntax and semantics. In the present study, we tested monolingual processing of...
Mandarin Chinese is typologically unusual among the world’s languages in having flexible word order despite a near absence of inflectional morphology. These features of Mandarin challenge conventional linguistic notions such as subject and object and the divide between syntax and semantics. In the present study, we tested monolingual processing of...
The rules governing adjective-noun order vary crosslinguistically, and event-related potentials have shown that violations of these rules elicit biphasic responses in native speakers and advanced non-native learners. We built on prior findings by replicating an English experiment and running a new experiment in Mandarin. In the replication, we test...
As one of the oldest languages in the world, Chinese has a long cultural history and unique language charm. The multilayer self-organizing neural network and data mining techniques have been widely used and can achieve high-precision prediction in different fields. However, they are hardly applied to Chinese language feature analysis. In order to a...
In English, the rule of agreement is quite simple: verbs must agree with their subject head nouns in terms of number features. Despite this simplicity, agreement processing is always interrupted when the subject phrase of the sentence “The key to the cabinets is on the table,” contains two nouns with a mismatch in number features commonly known as...
The properties of the bă construction and the function of the word bă in Mandarin Chinese have long been controversial issues. This paper elaborates the argument structure of the Mandarin bă construction from decontextualized and contextualized perspectives. In decontextualized analysis, the paper argues that the previous treatments of the word bă...
Late learners of Mandarin (L1 is English) can obtain qualitative native-like profiencey in processing mechansim of Mandarin sentences .
This poster presents preliminary analysis of Mandarin monolinguals' processing of noun-noun-verb sentences with and without the coverbs BA and BEI. Online behavioral judgments show that without BA and BEI, conceptual knowledge of semantic roles drives actor assignment. Additionally, in the absence of any cues, participants showed no preference for...
The typological classification of Mandarin Chinese as an isolating language lacking inflection brings about a theoretical consideration that word order in Mandarin serves as an interface between syntax and pragmatics. This paper provides from typological perspective a unified framework to examine the role that word order in Mandarin plays in markin...
Conjunctions play a crucial role in the construction of a coherent mental representation by signaling coherence relations between clauses, especially for second language users. By using event-related potentials (ERPs), this study aimed to investigate how different conjunctions (so, and, although, or a full stop) affect the interpretation of a follo...
This paper attempts to make a critical cognitive analysis of US strategic intelligence reports and aims at investigating language strategies and cognitive biases that occur in the reports and how the reports create the "realities" that may influence policymakers' decisions. The data for analysis include seven reports released by US Intelligence Com...
The paper employed ERP technique and Chinese traditional riddle-solving paradigm to explore the time courses and dynamic neural mechanisms of processing figurative two-part allegorical sayings. The results showed significant differences for two ERP components (N170 and N380) between highly familiar and highly unfamiliar linguistic stimuli: for both...
Based on compositionality, this paper proposes a three-grade hierarchy to classify 108 Chinese idioms (comparatively familiar and literally plausible) into three groups. With 36 non-idiomatic literal phrases as the control group, the present study used the event-related (brain) potentials (ERPs) to investigate the time course of Chinese idiom compr...
