Angel Chan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Angel Chan is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 4. Influence of syntactic complexity on second language prediction Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning, Kaan, Edith and Theres Grüter (eds.), pp. 69–90 | Chapter
This study investigated the influence of syntactic complexity on prediction in second language (L2) processing. In a visual world eye-tracking experiment, we compared L2 listeners’ prediction while processing simple (e.g., The dancer will open/ get the present) vs. complex sentences (e.g., I know… read more
2019 The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese, Peck, Jeeyoung (ed.), pp. 225–255 | Article
Semantic transparency deals with the interface between lexical semantics and morphology. It is an important linguistic phenomenon in Chinese in the context of prediction of meanings of compounds from their constituents. Given prominence of compounding in Chinese morpho-lexical processes, to date… read more
2011 Chapter 8. The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, Kidd, Evan (ed.), pp. 197–226 | Article
We discuss three typological characteristics relevant to the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Cantonese and Mandarin: (i) the prenominal position of RCs; (ii) the availability of an internally-headed analysis for Cantonese object RCs; and (iii) Chinese RCs as a subset of noun modifying… read more