Effects of Statistical Learning of Adjacent and Nonadjacent Dependencies on Processing of Syntactic and Semantic Information in Korean Sentences
Eunha Lee · Korean Semantics · 2024
This study investigates whether statistical learning (SL) of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies has an effect on processing each of local and long-distance dependencies in Korean sentences. Data were collected from 48 native Korean adults who were administered separate SL tasks involving adjacent and non-adjacent dependencies, as well as a self-paced reading task and a working memory task. Participants with high adjacent/non-adjacent SL ability tended to spend more time in reading semantically incongruent regions of sentences including local/long-distance dependencies. These findings suggest that individual differences in SL ability may contribute to variations in processing adjacent and non-adjacent semantic dependencies in Korean sentences.