Resolving structural ambiguity using animacy and grammatical cues in Chinese.

• Main Author: Ong, Deborah Yoke Ting.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48055
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study investigates how bilinguals resolve structural ambiguity in ambiguous Chinese relative clauses. Previous study has found cross-linguistic differences in the processing of ambiguous sentences such as “Somebody shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony” (Cuetos & Mitchell,...