Linguistic complexity and information structure in Korean: evidence from eye-tracking during reading.

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Linguistic complexity and information structure in Korean: evidence from eye-tracking during reading. Abstract Text:

Yoonhyoung Lee,Hanjung Lee,Peter C Gordon,

The nature of the memory processes that support language comprehension and the manner in which information packaging influences online sentence processing were investigated in three experiments that used eye-tracking during reading to measure the ease of understanding complex sentences in Korean. All three experiments examined reading of embedded complement sentences; the third experiment additionally examined reading of sentences with object-modifying, object-extracted relative clauses. In Korean, both of these structures place two NPs with nominative case marking early in the sentence, with the embedded and matrix verbs following later. The type (pronoun, name or description) of these two critical NPs was varied in the experiments. When the initial NPs were of the same type, comprehension was slowed after participants had read the sentence-final verbs, a finding that supports the view that working memory in language comprehension is constrained by similarity-based interference during the retrieval of information necessary to determine the syntactic or semantic relations between noun phrases and verb phrases. Ease of comprehension was also influenced by the association between type of NP and syntactic position, with the best performance being observed when more definite NPs (pronouns and names) were in a prominent syntactic position (e.g., matrix subject) and less definite NPs (descriptions) were in a non-prominent syntactic position (embedded subject). This pattern provides evidence that the interpretation of sentences is facilitated by consistent packaging of information in different linguistic elements.

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Linguistic complexity and information structure in Korean: evidence from eye-tracking during reading. Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov

Journal: Cognition

VOLUME: 104

Page Numbers: 495-534

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ISSN: 0010-0277

DAY: 12

MONTH: 09

YEAR: 2006

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AFFILIATION: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, USA.

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AGENCY: United States NIMH

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