1.Hunan University, Changsha;
2.Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, Republic Korea
关键词:
gender difference; processing; V-O movement
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摘要:
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.