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Grammatical Constraints and Processing Strategy of Topic Noun Phrases in Korean

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2005, v.17 no.1, pp.17-33

(2005). Grammatical Constraints and Processing Strategy of Topic Noun Phrases in Korean. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 17(1), 17-33.
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Three questionnaires and one on-line experiment were carried out to examine the use of grammatical constraints and processing strategy of topic noun phrases in Korean. Questionnaires 1 and 2 examined the use of grammatical information of the topic noun phrase by comparing the influence of sentence-initial topic noun phrases with that of sentence-initial subject-marked noun phrases on the interpretation of the sentences with a relative clause. Using the sentences with the two-layer relative clause, Questionnaire 1 found that the relative head was preferred as the subject of the lower relative clause in the topic noun phrase condition more than that in the subject-marked noun phrase condition. Using the sentences with the number and its classifier, Questionnaire 2 showed that a person who was not described in the sentence was preferred as the subject of the main clause in the topic noun phrase more than in the subject-marked noun phrase condition as in Questionnaire 1. The results of Questionnaire 1 and Questionnaire 2 showed the use of grammatical knowledge that a topic phrase is not analyzed as a constituent of the relative clause. Using the sentences with the complement clause, Questionnaire 3 investigated the ambiguity of the interpretation of the topic noun phrases. The subject interpretation of a topic noun phrase was preferred over the object interpretation. The reading experiment also showed that the main verb was read faster when a topic noun phrase was the subject in the main clause than when it was an object. We explained these results as the higher-clause subject strategy that states that the topic noun phrase is initially analyzed as the subject of a clause and is maintained as the subject of the higher clause if it is allowed in the grammar.

keywords
syntactic processing, parsing strategy, topic, higher-clause subject strategy, syntactic processing, parsing strategy, topic, higher-clause subject strategy, 통사 처리, 주제명사구, 통사 처리 전략, 주어전략

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