Research Of Eye Movement Behavior On Ambiguous Resolution In Chinese Language

These studies investigated cognitive processes of Chinese Expressions, The third Person Single Pronouns and Verb Biases, which are divided into four parts and are organized as follows.Part 1 concerns methods and theories of eye movement behavior. Specifically speaking, as an information processing system, people make a series of eye movements separated by fixations, and it is during the eye fixations that new information is acquired by the processing systems and the mental rep resentation of what the textmeans is contracted. There seems to us to be three different kinds of models of eye movement control: minimal-control model, visual-control model and cognitive - control model. Major factors in affecting eye movement control consist of saccades, lexical processing, visual acuity, attention and reinforcement learning overwhich the causal relationship s has been debated in more detail than ever before in this paper. Finally , three issues needed for further investigations arise.Part 2 is relevant to what influences the presence of ambiguity of a critical four-character sequence in a Chinese sentence was investigated with a measure of eye-movement control in two experiments, the first one of which showed that the adjective-subject four-character groupings such as college student in a sentence will never produce ambiguous effect during the reading of Chinese text. This result was inconsistent with Inhoff & Wu (2005)' one that readers spent more time viewing the critical character sequence and its two center characters in the ambiguous condition. Experiment 2 tested a necessary condition of such ambiguous effects in that such effects may occur only if the two center characters as antecedent is located at the beginning of the sentence. This is a recency effect of context consisting of a prerequisite of the presence of ambiguous effect for the four-character groupings, and the extent to which our conclusion is consistent with both the unidirectional parsing hypothesis and model of antecedent connectionism.Part 3 is relevant to the fact that an experiment on eye movement control we reported here investigated the relationships between the lexical features of the candidate antecedent and its syntactic prominence. The results showed that reading times of sentences containing over pronouns that had ambiguous reference in terms of gender were slower in the shift condition than in the continue condition, regardless of whether the preceding sentence had a canonical or by-phrase structure. It appears that how to resolve the third person single pronouns in Chinese are strongly influenced by the two factors, that is, the lexical features of the candidate antecedent and its syntactic prominence, relevant to the ease of the pronominal references during the processing of language.Part 4 is relative to another study which focuses on two factors of temporarily ambiguous resolution in Chinese: verb bias and plausibility to which related data were collected with the eye-movement techniques in two experiments. In Experiment 1, relationships between DO/SC sentences and SVO sentences were tested. The results showed that the occurrence of DO/SC ambiguities was due to effects of verb bias in comparison with disambiguous SVO structures. Experiment 2 was relevant to the effects of verb bias on the ambiguous DO/SC structures. The results showed that the effects of verb bias are based on plausibility of verb bias, and the extent to which transition of the verb in Chinese was a function of plausibility of the verb bias as it varies. The more the plausibility occurs, the more the verb bias has. The interaction between verb bias and plausibility promotes the formation of DO/SC ambiguities.