Processing Relative Clauses In Chinese: Commentary On Paper By F. Hsiao And E. Gibson

In the journal article “Processing relative clauses in Chinese” the authors, Franny Hsiao, Edward Gibson, discuss the difficulties associated with processing subject relative clauses (SRC) vs. object relative clauses (ORC) in Chinese, an SVO language in which relative clause precedes the head noun....

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Published in:	Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol. 7; no. 2
Main Authors:	Uysal,Hüseyin, Bulut,Talat
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Turkish
Published:	Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü 01-02-2016
Subjects:	Felsefe & Psikoloji & Sosyoloji Siyasal Bilimler Ankara Türkiye Processing Relative Clauses Gibson
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Summary:	In the journal article “Processing relative clauses in Chinese” the authors, Franny Hsiao, Edward Gibson, discuss the difficulties associated with processing subject relative clauses (SRC) vs. object relative clauses (ORC) in Chinese, an SVO language in which relative clause precedes the head noun. Unlike many relative clause processing studies carried out till that time, this study replicated the theories in the literature with a language which requires head nouns before relative clauses. In this respect, this paper is accepted as one of the well-known initiatory non-English papers in the field. It aims to account for what a complex syntactic structure is for natural language processing in the context of relative clauses, and it does it by controlling the criteria, such as discourse context, lexical information and real-word plausibility of
ISSN:	2148-3434 2148-3434