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Verb-Object Movement Processing in CSL

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Language and Cognitive Science / 2017,3(1)：41−56 / 2017-08-26 887 774

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• Authors: Zhenbiao      Liu*      and      Noel      Woodward     
• Information:

  1.Hunan University, Changsha;
  2.Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, Republic Korea

• Keywords: gender difference; processing; V-O movement
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• Abstract: The study of gender difference is an important sub-branch of linguistic research, especially for language acquisition, such as vocabulary acquisition, grammar acquisition, and syntactic acquisition. In the teaching of Chinese as a second language, some studies found that students from the Uygur areas had difficulty in learning sentences containing component movement, and gender differences also exist to make this mechanism more intricate. In this paper, we use the self-paced reading experiment to investigate both the ability of Uygur students to process Chinese V-O movement structures and gender differences in real-time processing. We found: Females process “Yijing” V-O movement structure better than males, and while males do better in simple movement sentences, females performed faster in most phases of processing. Interaction effects of gender and movement type, and of sentence type and movement type, as long as main effects of gender, sentence type, and movement type contribute to these differences in accuracy and response time of components in Chinese V-O movement structure. This study will benefit the theoretical study of Chinese V-O movement structure and its acquisition, and the study of acquisition of gender differences by non-native Chinese speakers.
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17923/LCS201703002
• Cite: Zhenbiao Liu, Noel Woodward. Verb-Object Movement Processing in CSL［J］．Language and Cognitive Science，2017，3（1）：41−56．