title: The advantage of first mention in Korean the temporal contributions of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors.
abstract: Using Korean, we investigated how syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors influence the representation of a sentence, in particular, the relative accessibility of different components of a sentence representation. In six experiments, participants performed a probe recognition task after reading each of a series of sentences. We manipulated the rate at which each word of the sentence was presented (250 and 500ms) and the interval between the sentence-final word and the probe-recognition test word (immediate, 500ms delay, and 1000ms delay). We also manipulated the syntactic position (subject versus object), semantic role (agent versus patient), and order of mention (first- versus second-mentioned participant) of the probed item. Pragmatic factors (the order of mention) strongly influenced accessibility immediately and through the longest delay, whereas syntactic and semantic factors had little effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Education, Korea University, South Korea. sungkim@korea.ac.kr
authors.forename: Sung-il
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jae-ho
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Morton Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gernsbacher
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D012660:Semantics; D013998:Time Perception