한국어 중의적 비교 구문의 처리에 관한 안구운동추적연구

Abstract

We investigated (1) whether the preferred interpretation of ambiguous Korean comparative constructions would be shifted depends on lexical-semantic features, (2) whether the processing differences between the Plain-NP comparatives and the Clausal-NP comparatives would be revealed during online processing, and (3) whether the parallelism effect in comparative sentences would occur. The results in sentence completion and comprehension tasks showed that participants recognized the difference between the Plain-NP comparatives and the Clausal-NP comparatives and distinguished them according to the meaning-based information such as the typicality of an event structure and the semantic relationship between the nouns which were the objects of comparing. The linear mixed-effects regression models in the eye-tracking experiment revealed that the reading times when the nouns with semantically-related information were used were significantly faster than when the proper names were used. However, the parallelism effect was not revealed significantly. Taken together, our results indicate that semantic information does affect processing ambiguous comparatives, while it is unlikely that this effect is sufficient to lead the parallelism effect.