Reversibility and Temporal Disparities in Chinese Anti-expectation Equal Comparative Sentences as Assessed Via Eye Movement Measurements
Purposes:The research has two objectives.Its primary aim is to investigate the irreversibility of Chinese anti-expectation e-qual comparative sentences.Additionally,it seeks to determine potential disparities in the irreversibility of Chinese anti-expectation e-qual comparative sentences between early and late processing stages.These objectives represent original contributions to the field.Proce-dures:A one-factor within-subject experimental design was employed in this study,wherein the independent variable manipulated sentence types,specifically anti-expectation equal comparative sentences versus their reversal sentences.For instance,mortals are just as afraid as saints VS.saints are just as afraid as mortals.Moreover,behavioral research methods and eye tracking techniques were uti-lized in the study.Additionally,to ensure ecological validity,the positive order sentences in the experimental materials were derived from a natural corpus while the negative order sentences were generated by transforming the positive order ones.After generating the reversal sentence,a total of 42 anti-expectation equal comparative sentences and their reversals were randomly arranged with at least one filling statement inserted between each pair of statements.The filled sentence is a complex nominal metaphorical sentence that significantly dif-fers from normal ones(e.g.,Language is the glue of society).In total,99 formal experimental materials consist of flat comparison sen-tences and filled sentences which underwent assessment by an external cohort not involved in the experiment.The study recruited 68 participants who were native Chinese speakers enrolled in college courses;out of these participants,32 took part in the experiment while 36 subjects were included in the investigation.Results:The data were analyzed using a mixed effects model.The results of the behavioral data analysis indicate that the proportion of perceiving the anti-expectation equal comparative sentence as comprehensible is signifi-cantly higher compared to its corresponding reversed order sentence(β =0.54,t =2.18,p =0.03).However,there is no statistically significant difference in response time index between the two conditions(β=0.02,t =-0.752,p =0.462).The eye tracking data yiel-ded marginally divergent outcomes when considering the entire sentence as the region of interest for eye movement analysis.There was no significant difference in initial reading time between Chinese anti-expectation equal comparative sentences and their reversed com-parison counterparts(β =0.05,t =1.05,p =0.305).However,both total fixation duration(β =0.08,t =2.10,p =0.049)and number of fixations(β =0.09,t =2.07,p =0.039)on the original sentence were significantly lower than those on the reversed sentence.Con-clusion:The intelligibility of Chinese anti-expectation equal comparative sentences decreases when they are reversed,but this phenom-enon occurs during the later stages of sentence processing.
Chinese anti-expectation equal comparative sentencesthe irreversibilityearly-stage sentence processinglate-stage sentence processingAn Eye-Tracking Study
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