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Ambiguity Resolution Processes of Reflexives:Eye-tracking Data

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2007, v.19 no.4, pp.263-277
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2007.19.4.001


& (2007). Ambiguity Resolution Processes of Reflexives:Eye-tracking Data. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 19(4), 263-277, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2007.19.4.001

Abstract

This paper reported an eye-tracking experiment designed to probe how the reference ambiguities of Korean reflexive expressions are resolved during on-line processing. In Korean the reflexives (e.g., 'caki' 'casin') could refer both antecedent NPs in the sentences. We have compared two forms of the reflexive pronouns and the argument information of verbs that could make referential relations unambiguous and measured four indices of eye movements such as the first pass reading times, the re-reading times, the total reading time, and the regression frequency. First, the results of the experiment showed that participants have read ‘caki’ faster than ‘casin’ in the ambiguous region of sentences and in the disambiguation verb. Second, the ‘caki’ in the sentences with the reflexive that refer to main-clause subject were read faster than the sentences with the reflexive that refer to embedded-clause subject in the disambiguation region(i.e., verb). However, the ‘casin’ did not show any differences between the conditions. It was discussed that two different Korean reflexives might have different linguistic properties and their referential resolution processes might be determined by different principles.

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문장이해, 참조다의성 해소, 재귀대명사, 점진 처리, 안구운동, sentence comprehension, referential ambiguity resolution, reflexives, incremental process, eye-tracking

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