Syntactic And Semantic Processing In The Dai Nationality Children's Understanding Of The Role Of Chinese Sentences

Sentences are the most basic language units to express complete ideas with somegrammatical features. In reading process, understanding the sentence is a veryimportant cognitive process. The process of sentence comprehension not onlyincludes the coding of visual information, word recognition, but also includesanalysis of the syntactic and semantic relationship between the sentences and words,and finally form a effective and reasonable propositional representation which relatedto the sentence.sentence comprehension is a basic form and core content of the language overallunderstanding, the understanding of the sentence is an important aspect in children’slanguage development. What strategies will be taken in the process of children’sunderstanding of sentence? What factors play a decisive role in the process ofchildren’s understand of sentences? Do syntax and semantics play the same role inthe process of sentence understanding? All the questions above has been commonconcerned and discussed by psychologist.Based on previous studies, this study proposed the functions and relationships ofsyntactic processing and semantic in the process of Dai children’s understanding ofChinese sentence, which, to some extent, explains the Sentence comprehensionstrategies in the process of Dai children’s understanding of Chinese sentence.These results show that:(1) Syntactic and semantic factors play an role in theprocess of Dai children’s understanding of Chinese sentence in different times duringthe work. Syntactic analysis is an autonomous process that can independent ofsemantics. This result is basically supported the theory of self-syntactic.(2) Forsentences that no obvious grammatical markers, syntactic factors is the primary rolein the process of Dai children’s understanding of Chinese sentences, and the role ofsemantic factors are secondary. Only when the purpose of the experiment requiresmore semantic analysis of sentences at the right time, the role of semantic factors willbe more significant.(3) For sentences that have obvious grammatical markers, Daichildren still can’t use the grammatical markers effectively for understanding this kind of sentence in the task of agentive judgement. They are not sensitive to the "Ba" and"Bei" and such kind of sign words. They still judge the agent of sentences throughsyntax and grammatical features of common sentences. The results show that both thesyntactic and semantic played a significant role; whereas in the task of quicklysentence judgement, both the syntax and semantics have no significant effect.