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Functional priority of syntax over semantics in Chinese 'ba' construction: evidence from eye-tracking during natural reading.

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Title: Functional priority of syntax over semantics in Chinese 'ba' construction: evidence from eye-tracking during natural reading.
Authors: Wei, Yanjun, Tang, Yingjuan, Privitera, Adam John
Source: Language & Cognition (Cambridge University Press); Jun2024, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p380-400, 21p
Subject Terms: CHINESE language, EYE tracking, SYNTAX (Grammar), SEMANTICS, YOUNG adults
Abstract: Studies on sentence processing in inflectional languages support that syntactic structure building functionally precedes semantic processing. Conversely, most EEG studies of Chinese sentence processing do not support the priority of syntax. One possible explanation is that the Chinese language lacks morphological inflections. Another explanation may be that the presentation of separate sentence components on individual screens in EEG studies disrupts syntactic framework construction during sentence reading. The present study investigated this explanation using a self-paced reading experiment mimicking rapid serial visual presentation in EEG studies and an eye-tracking experiment reflecting natural reading. In both experiments, Chinese 'ba' sentences were presented to Chinese young adults in four conditions that differed across the dimensions of syntactic and semantic congruency. Evidence supporting the functional priority of syntax over semantics was limited to only the natural reading context, in which syntactic violations blocked the processing of semantics. Additionally, we observed a later stage of integrating plausible semantics with a failed syntax. Together, our findings extend the functional priority of syntax to the Chinese language and highlight the importance of adopting more ecologically valid methods when investigating sentence reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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