The Effect Of Syntactic Structure Similarity On Korean Students In China Processing Chinese Phrase Structure:an ERPs Study

The similarity of syntactic structure has aroused great interest in the second language acquisition research field.Foreign studies mainly focus on studying two languages within Indo-European.Domestic researchers mainly study Chinese students' English learning,however,there are different ideas about the similarity of syntactic structure when bilinguals process syntactic structure of L2.Under syntactic judgement task,this study,by using ERPs(Event-Related Potentials)technique and cross-language structure priming paradigm,probes whether there is cross-language structure priming effect and the effect of the similarity of syntactic structure in processing Chinese phrase structure by Korean students in China.According to this research results,there is cross-language structure priming effect on Korean students in China processing part of Chinese phrase structures,and the similarity of syntactic structure affects the Chinese phrase structures processing by Korean students in China in the following ways:First of all,there is cross-language structure priming effect in Korean students in China processing the similar attribute-headword phrase structures between Chinese and Korean and the specific central-complement phrase structures in Chinese,there is no cross-language structure priming effect in Korean students in China processing the different verb-object phrase structures between Chinese and Korean.Furthermore,the similarity of syntactic structure affects the Chinese phrase structures processing by Korean students in China.For Korean students in China,because of positive transfer of native language,there is cross-language structure priming effect in Korean students in China processing the similar attribute-headword phrase structures between Chinese and Korean;there is cross-language structure priming effect in Korean students in China processing the Chinese specific central-complement phrase structures;but because of negative transfer of native language,there is no cross-language structure priming effect in Korean students in China processing the different verb-object phrase structures between Chinese and Korean.Eventually,When they process the specific central-complement phrase structures in Chinese,there is cross-language structures priming effect as well.It means that Korean students in China can acquire Chinese specific phrase structures and reset the new parameter value in L2.