Examining Online Syntactic Processing of Spoken Complex Sentences in Chinese Using Dual-Modal Interference TasksTuyuan Cheng 1, Jei-Tun Wu 2
1General Education Center, National Tainan Junior College of Nursing, 2Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University
Here, we present a protocol employing dual-modal interference tasks to examine online processing of spoken-Chinese relative clause sentences. Two exemplar experiments involving auditory processing with intra- and extrasentential interferences are described. The paradigm provides a methodology for addressing the nature of working memory and its effects on sentence processing.