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Sentence Processing in Relative Clauses in Standard Arabic
Sentence Processing in Relative Clauses in Standard Arabic
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152807
- ISBN
- 9798384483021
- DDC
- 401
- 저자명
- Dodd, Nicole.
- 서명/저자
- Sentence Processing in Relative Clauses in Standard Arabic
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Davis, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 146 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Morgan, Emily.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약What makes some sentences more difficult to process, and why? Memory- and expectation-based theories both attempt to explain sentence processing difficulties, and decades of sentence processing literature have found evidence in support of both theories. This dissertation further investigates these theories of sentence processing by exploring processing of subject- and object-extracted relative clauses (SRCs and ORCs) in Modern Standard Arabic, and how expectations affect the resulting interpretation of low-frequency structures. We investigate this question through various experimental paradigms. We first tested memory- versus expectation-based theories using a self-paced reading task. Results showed longer reading times for ORCs, supporting expectation-based theories, with difficulty localized at the relative clause noun phrase. We also found that misinterpretations were more frequent for ORCs, suggesting possible misreading as SRCs or good-enough and noisy-channel processing. To investigate this phenomenon, we conducted a recall task where participants re-wrote sentences word-for-word. Errors showed both ORCs being re-written as SRCs and vice versa, supporting good-enough and noisy-channel processing theories. We then explicitly tested the possibility of misreading versus good-enough or noisy-channel processing through eye-tracking. Findings indicated that readers were not misreading ORCs, but instead accepting noisy SRC interpretations. Finally, we explored the impact of grammatical cues versus statistical expectations in a second eye-tracking experiment. Results showed that increasing grammatical cues in favor of a veridical ORC interpretation did not significantly affect noisy interpretations or processing behaviors, indicating that grammatical cues were insufficient to override statistical expectations in a good-enough or noisy-channel framework.
- 일반주제명
- Linguistics
- 일반주제명
- Experimental psychology
- 일반주제명
- Cognitive psychology
- 키워드
- Expectations
- 키워드
- Standard Arabic
- 키워드
- Working memory
- 기타저자
- University of California, Davis Linguistics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17163894▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


