Year: 2011
Type: dissertation
Abstract: From the perspective of cognitive psychology, our knowledge of language can be viewed as mental representations and our use of language can be understood as the computation or processing of mental representations.This thesis explores the mental representation and processing of syntactic structure.The method used in this thesis is structural priming, a phenomenon in which people tend to repeat the linguistic structure that they have recently processed.The language under investigation is Chinese.The main research theme is divided up into four different questions.The first question is how syntactic structure is mentally represented.For a long time this has been a question for syntacticians whose main evidence is their intuition.There are, however, recent calls for experimental methods in the investigation of syntactic representation.I propose that structural priming can be Duo, Cheng, Xian, Guanyin, Laohu, and Panjie.I thank Dong Yanping Laoshi and
Author: Zhenguang G. Cai
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1485147368