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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

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  • Understanding sentence processing in morphologically rich languages like Korean is crucial for psycholinguistics.
  • The role of noun phrase (NP) markedness and its alignment in complex sentence comprehension remains an active research area.
  • Previous research has explored various linguistic cues, but the interplay of relative markedness and its consistency needs further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of relative markedness alignment consistency of noun phrases (NPs) on the online processing of complex Korean sentences.
  • To examine how animacy and case markings (nominative/accusative, nominative/topic) of NPs influence reading patterns.
  • To determine the relative contribution of animacy versus case marking to processing complexity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized eye-tracking during reading to capture real-time processing of complex Korean sentences.
  • Designed two experiments manipulating NP animacy and case markings (Experiment 1: second NP case; Experiment 2: first NP marking).
  • Analyzed reading patterns to assess the influence of linguistic manipulations on sentence comprehension.

Main Results:

  • Both animacy and nominative-topicality manipulations significantly affected participants' reading of complex sentences.
  • Prominence misalignment due to animacy had a stronger effect on reading patterns than nominative-topicality manipulation.
  • Eye-tracking data indicated that consistency in relative markedness alignment of NPs plays a significant role in online sentence processing.

Conclusions:

  • The consistency of relative markedness alignment of NPs is a critical factor in the online processing of Korean complex sentences.
  • Animacy of NPs exerts a stronger influence on sentence processing compared to case marking variations (nominative vs. topic).
  • These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how readers integrate structural and semantic information during language comprehension.