This research examines factors that influence the frequency and ease of processing of
relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese. We conduct a corpus study of RCs with …

Current models of sentence processing make contrasting predictions regarding the
processing of head-final relative clauses (RCs) in Chinese, but existing research has found …

Prior research on relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese has led to conflicting results
regarding ease of processing subject-extracted RCs (SRCs) versus object-extracted RCs …

This thesis investigates relative clauses (henceforth RCs) in Mandarin Chinese as spoken in
Taiwan from both syntactic and processing perspectives. I also explore the interaction …

Languages with distinct typological characteristics often present different challenges to
language processing and thus lead to differences in linguistic performances across …

We discuss three typological characteristics relevant to the acquisition of relative clauses
(RCs) in Cantonese and Mandarin:(i) the prenominal position of RCs;(ii) the availability of an …

A number of previous studies on Chinese relative clauses (RC) have reported conflicting
results on processing asymmetry. This study aims to revisit the prevalent debate on whether …

A controversy in the sentence processing literature regarding relative-clause processing
was raised by Hsiao and Gibson's (2003) study of Chinese relative clauses. Their study …

Studies from many languages consistently report that subject relative clauses (SR) are
easier to process than object relatives (OR). However, Hsiao and Gibson (2003) report an …

The particular forms of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese lead to particular
cognitive, semantic, pragmatic, and discourse constraints on speakers and writers. In this …