Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Production of Relative Clauses in Cantonese

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Jiaying Huang, C. Donati
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Abstract

Abstract In the literature about processing of relative clauses (RCs), subject relatives (SRs) are reported to be easier than object relatives (ORs) in a number of languages, but the status of prenominal ORs in languages where the object follows the verb (SVO) is still partly controversial. This study explores the production of RCs in Cantonese in two elicited production experiments and two corpus studies. In the first elicited experiment, an overwhelming preference for SRs was observed. In two corpus studies where the context and the feature of arguments were uncontrolled, the reverse pattern was observed. In order to reconcile the two datasets, we speculate that what counts in object dependencies is the featural endowment of the subject, as in the intervention hypothesis implemented in Friedmann et al. 2009. A second elicited experiment was run to test this hypothesis. The results suggest that production of RCs in Cantonese displays a subject preference in general and that object dispreference is modulated by featural mismatch.
广东话关系从句中主宾不对称现象
在有关关系从句处理的文献中,有报道称在许多语言中,主语关系比宾语关系更容易处理,但在宾语后置动词的语言中,介词关系的地位仍然存在一定的争议。本研究通过两个引出性产生实验和两个语料库研究来探讨粤语中RCs的产生。在第一个诱导实验中,观察到对SRs的压倒性偏好。在两个语料库研究中,语境和论点的特征是不受控制的,观察到相反的模式。为了调和这两个数据集,我们推测对象依赖性中最重要的是主体的特征禀赋,正如Friedmann等人2009年实施的干预假设中所述。为了验证这一假设,进行了第二个引出实验。结果表明,广东话RCs的产生总体上表现为主体偏好,客体偏好受特征失配调节。
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
CiteScore
0.50
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发文量
3
审稿时长
46 weeks
期刊介绍: STUDIES IN CHINESE LINGUISTICS is an international academic journal devoted to comparative study of Chinese language and linguistics and a platform for research of comparative linguistics and dialectal grammar under a comparative approach. We especially welcome synchronic or diachronic comparative works on any aspects of the syntax, semantics, and morphology among Chinese dialects or between a Chinese language/dialect and any languages that contribute to theoretical linguistics or have significant theoretical implications. The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
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