Abstract The Interpretation of Chinese relative clauses has become of significant interest in sentence processing research, since some studies found that Chinese comprehension patterns violate the well-known universal subject relatives preference proposed by NAPH theory and proved by cross-linguistic studies. The current study uses the neuropsychological measure of ERP. It supports such a language-specific phenomenon, with the results showing that both subject-and object-modifying subject relatives eliciting larger ERP components than object relatives. The results suggest that object relatives are easier to process than subject relatives at both modifying positions, challenging the claim of universal subject preference for all languages. In addition, this study casts doubts on CWO and working memory-based DLT models despite results being compatible with them, and concludes that none of the current models are comprehensive enough to account for the data. Finally, this study offers a piece of evidence for the garden path effect caused by the surface NVN word order in the Chinese relative clause. All in all, this study adds to the evidence that processing preference is not universal. It contributes to a comprehensive model of how complex structures are processed.

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用中文处理相对从句：事件相关电位的证据

摘要汉语的从句解释在句子加工研究中引起了广泛的关注，因为一些研究发现汉语的理解模式违反了NAPH理论提出的，由跨语言研究证明的普遍普遍的亲属偏爱。当前的研究使用ERP的神经心理学方法。它支持这种特定于语言的现象，结果表明，修改对象和对象的对象亲戚都比对象亲戚引起更大的ERP组件。结果表明，在两个修改位置上，宾语亲戚都比宾语亲戚更容易处理，这挑战了所有语言都具有普遍的宾语偏好。此外，尽管结果与CWO和基于工作内存的DLT模型兼容，但这项研究仍令人怀疑，并得出结论，当前的模型尚不足以对数据进行解释。最后，本研究为汉语亲子句中的表面NVN词序引起的花园路径效应提供了证据。总而言之，这项研究增加了证据表明加工偏好不是普遍的。它有助于建立复杂结构的综合模型。