PMID- 9110435
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970512
LR  - 20191102
IS  - 0090-6905 (Print)
IS  - 0090-6905 (Linking)
VI  - 26
IP  - 2
DP  - 1997 Mar
TI  - The resolution of the dative NP ambiguity in Korean.
PG  - 265-73
AB  - An eye-movement study examined the ambiguity of the dative noun phrase (NP) in 
      Korean, which may be attached either to the main verb or to a relative verb. 
      Experimental sentences of the form NP-Nom NP-Dat NP-Nom V (dative) NP-Acc V 
      (dative or simple transitive; Nom = nominative; Dat = dative; V = verb; Acc = 
      accusative) were tested. Garden-path theory predicts that comprehension 
      difficulty occurs when the main verb is transitive, forcing the dative NP to be 
      attached to the relative verb, because the dative NP will have already been 
      attached in the clause posited when the first nominative NP is read. In contrast, 
      lexically based theory predicts that comprehension difficulty occurs when the 
      main verb is a dative verb, because the dative NP will be attached to the first 
      verb encountered (the relative verb). The present study did not fully support 
      either theory, because the differences seen in the experimental conditions 
      appeared, at least in part, in the control conditions. However, the results were 
      much different from the prediction of lexically based theory. Reading was faster, 
      and regressive eye movements fewer, in the dative-ambiguous condition than in the 
      transitive-ambiguous condition. Some reasons for the unexpected difficulty of the 
      transitive-unambiguous condition are advanced.
FAU - Koh, S
AU  - Koh S
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01002, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Psycholinguist Res
JT  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
JID - 0333506
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Korea
MH  - *Language
MH  - *Semantics
MH  - Speech Perception
MH  - Vocabulary
EDAT- 1997/03/01 00:00
MHDA- 1997/03/01 00:01
CRDT- 1997/03/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/03/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/03/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/03/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1023/a:1025021918198 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Psycholinguist Res. 1997 Mar;26(2):265-73. doi: 10.1023/a:1025021918198.