title: Disambiguation and Integration in Korean Relative Clause Processing.
abstract: Previous studies on Korean relative clauses (RC) show that, with respect to processing, object-extracted relative clauses (ORC) are more difficult to process at the head noun than subject-extracted relative clauses within temporarily ambiguous contexts. ORCs, however, are predicted by experience-based processing models to incur a greater processing cost during early processing stages at the RC verb, since it is a likely locus of disambiguation for RCs in Korean, and because ORCs are a less frequent structure. Consequently, the current study investigates whether processing difficulty for ORCs manifests itself at the RC verb using eye-tracking methods, a simple sentence structure and a sentential-decision task. The results revealed significantly increased go-past reading times for ORCs at the RC verb. We believe this is a result of a less frequent structure being more difficult to parse during disambiguation. Accordingly, experience-based models of processing can accurately predict difficulty for ORCs in Korean.
authors.affiliation: Department of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mansbridge
authors.affiliation: Department of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Sunju
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. ktamaoka@lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp.|Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, 466-8601, Japan. ktamaoka@lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Katsuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tamaoka
mesh_terms: D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D056910:Republic of Korea; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Ambiguity; Experience; Eye-tracking; Korean; Relative clauses