Integration of Syntactic and Semantic Information during Incremental Processing in Head-final Korean
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It is well-established that comprehenders rapidly integrate incoming information incrementally during sentence processing. While extensive research has explored this phenomenon in Indo-European languages, the processing dynamics in typologically distinct languages, particularly those with head-final structures like Korean, remain underexplored. To address this gap, this study investigates real-time anaphora processing in Korean, focusing on how speakers establish agreement between reflexives and antecedent in the presence of structural and semantic constraints. In two self-paced reading experiments, we examined the processing of the Korean reflexive “caki,” investigating how Korean speakers’ anaphora resolution is modulated by syntactic and semantic information encountered during real-time sentence processing. In Experiment 1, we observed a clear tendency toward associating caki with a third-person referent. In Experiment 2, we found that this preference was further influenced by the semantic information of the following verb. These findings lend support to pre-head attachment accounts, which posit that speakers of head-final languages actively integrate incoming cues to construct linguistic representations.
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It is well-established that comprehenders rapidly integrate incoming information incrementally during sentence processing. While extensive research has explored this phenomenon in Indo-European languages, the processing dynamics in typologically distinct languages, particularly those with head-final structures like Korean, remain underexplored. To address this gap, this study investigates real-time anaphora processing in Korean, focusing on how speakers establish agreement between reflexives and antecedent in the presence of structural and semantic constraints. In two self-paced reading experiments, we examined the processing of the Korean reflexive “caki,” investigating how Korean speakers’ anaphora resolution is modulated by syntactic and semantic information encountered during real-time sentence processing. In Experiment 1, we observed a clear tendency toward associating caki with a third-person referent. In Experiment 2, we found that this preference was further influenced by the semantic information of the following verb. These findings lend support to pre-head attachment accounts, which posit that speakers of head-final languages actively integrate incoming cues to construct linguistic representations.
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