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Yang, Fang; Mo, Lun; Louwerse, Max M. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
An eye tracking study investigated the effects of local and global discourse context on the processing of subject and object relative clauses, whereby the contexts favored either a subject relative clause interpretation or an object relative clause interpretation. The fixation data replicated previous studies showing that object relative clause…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Patterns, Sentences, Context Effect
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Hsieh, Shelley Ching-Yu; Hsu, Chun-Chieh Natalie – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
This study examines the effect of familiarity, context, and linguistic convention on idiom comprehension in Mandarin speaking children. Two experiments (a comprehension task followed by a comprehension task coupled with a metapragmatic task) were administered to test participants in three age groups (6 and 9-year-olds, and an adult control group).…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Patterns, Speech Communication, Metalinguistics