Abstract Repetition avoidance, one characteristic of human cognition, affects human behaviour to a great extent. The present study aims to extend the understanding of repetition avoidance to sentence comprehension in Korean, a language typologically different from the major languages that have been investigated for this issue. I measured the degree of acceptability and reaction times for two types of multiple postposition constructions in Korean, each of which has two grammatical patterns involving postposition alternations (dative-accusative and accusative-accusative for the dative construction; topic-nominative and nominative-nominative for the double subject construction). Results showed that the patterns involving repetition of postpositions were dispreferred over those without the repetition, and that by-pattern reaction times within each construction type were modulated by the postposition types repeated in the patterns. The findings of this study support the role of repetition avoidance for sentence comprehension in Korean (and perhaps beyond), and suggest an interplay between a domain-general factor (repetition avoidance) and language-specific knowledge (postpositions).

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人们还避免在句子理解中重复：韩文中多个后置句式的证据

摘要避免重复是人类认知的特征之一，在很大程度上影响着人类的行为。本研究旨在将对重复避免的理解扩展到韩语中的句子理解，这是一种在语言学上不同于对此问题进行研究的主要语言的语言。我测量了朝鲜语中两种类型的多个后置构词的可接受程度和反应时间，每种构词都有两种语法模式，涉及后置词交替（对于宾语构词，宾语指称和宾格指称；双重主题结构）。结果表明，与重复位置无关的模式比不重复位置的模式更为可取，每种构造类型中的副图样反应时间是通过在图样中重复的后置位置类型来调节的。这项研究的发现支持重复避免在朝鲜语中（甚至可能超越）对于句子理解的作用，并表明领域通用因素（避免重复）和特定于语言的知识（后置位）之间存在相互作用。