한국어 문장처리에서 부가어적 형용사와 명사의 의미통합

Semantic integration between an attributive adjective and a noun in Korean sentence processing

The present study investigates the cognitive mechanism underlying online semantic integration between an adjective(A) and a noun(N) in the processing of ambiguous constructions of Korean, in which an A might either modify the adjacent N or an additional N separated from the A by an intervening relative clause. The results of two psycholinguistic experiments indicate that the A-N semantic integration does not necessarily take place at the N position, at which multiple syntactic structures are still allowed, but is rather suspended to the position of the clause(sentence)-final verb, at which one of the previously assumed structures should be chosen. This result supports the single-stream model of language processing, which assumes an inextricable coupling between syntax and semantics.