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An Experimental Study on the Comprehension of Adversative Relation and Casual Relation in Chinese

WU Ni-ni, HE Xian-you, XU Yan-na   

  1. Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631
  • Online:2009-04-15 Published:2009-04-15

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Abstract: The purpose of this research was to explore the differences between understanding casual relations and adversative relations in Chinese reading.Two experiments were constructed.Probeverification paradign was used in experiment 1 to examine whether this difference between reading casual sentence and adversaive sentence was existed.The results showed that the time for reading casual sentence was much longer than that of adversative sentence,but there was no differences between the reaction time of probe words in this two different levels.The same technique was applied in experiment 2 to invest igate whether the difference was existed during Chinese passage reading.By comparing the reaction time to probe words in different relations,it could be concluded whether the adversative relations was difficult to comprehend.The results indicated that the reaction time to the probe words in casual relation was much slower than that of adversative relation.It implied that the adversat ive relation was more difficult to comprehend than casual relation.

Key words: Chinese reading, adversative relations, casual relations

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  • G442
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