August 8,2007,a special day for Chinese people,marks the be- ginning of one-year countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.A grand ceremony opened in Chinas Olym- pic City at 8:08pm on August 8,2008. On this signifi...August 8,2007,a special day for Chinese people,marks the be- ginning of one-year countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.A grand ceremony opened in Chinas Olym- pic City at 8:08pm on August 8,2008. On this significant day,many celebrations referring to Olympic Games were held展开更多
The processing of relative clauses receives much concern from linguists. The finding that object relatives are easier to process than subiect relatives in Chinese challenges the notion that subject relative clauses ar...The processing of relative clauses receives much concern from linguists. The finding that object relatives are easier to process than subiect relatives in Chinese challenges the notion that subject relative clauses are preferred universally. A large body of literature provides theories related to sentence processing mechanisms for native speakers but leaves one area relatively untouched： how bilinguals process sentences. This study is designed to examine the case where the individuals with a Chinese L1 language background process subject-extracted subject relative clauses （SS） and subject-extracted object relative clauses （SO） by using event- related potentials （ERPs） to probe into the real-time language processing and presents a direct manifestation of brain activity. The findings from this study support the subject relative clause preference due to the strong influence of English relative clause markedness and bilinguals＇ relative lower working memory capacity.展开更多
文摘August 8,2007,a special day for Chinese people,marks the be- ginning of one-year countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.A grand ceremony opened in Chinas Olym- pic City at 8:08pm on August 8,2008. On this significant day,many celebrations referring to Olympic Games were held
基金This work was supported through the National Social Science Foundation of China （13BYY072）.
文摘The processing of relative clauses receives much concern from linguists. The finding that object relatives are easier to process than subiect relatives in Chinese challenges the notion that subject relative clauses are preferred universally. A large body of literature provides theories related to sentence processing mechanisms for native speakers but leaves one area relatively untouched： how bilinguals process sentences. This study is designed to examine the case where the individuals with a Chinese L1 language background process subject-extracted subject relative clauses （SS） and subject-extracted object relative clauses （SO） by using event- related potentials （ERPs） to probe into the real-time language processing and presents a direct manifestation of brain activity. The findings from this study support the subject relative clause preference due to the strong influence of English relative clause markedness and bilinguals＇ relative lower working memory capacity.
