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Perry, Conrad; Kan, Man-Kit; Matthews, Stephen; Wong, Richard Kwok-Shing – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
In this study we examined syntactic ambiguity resolution in two different Chinese languages, Cantonese and Mandarin, which are relatively similar grammatically but very different phonologically. We did this using four-character sentences that could be read using two, two-syllable sequences (2-2) or a structure where the first syllable could be…
Descriptors: Syntax, Mandarin Chinese, Chinese, Syllables