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Dynamic symmetric theory : An Empirical Study Based on the mirror structure

Author: YangHuaHua
Tutor: LiuChengYu
School: Southwestern University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Symmetric theory Dynamic symmetric theory Syntactic tree E-Prime Empirical research
CLC: H04
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

1980s, academics agreed that the structure of all the world's languages ??are from the syntactic tree of the four: SVO, SOV, VOS and OVS. Kayne (1994) in his monograph \He believes that the syntactic structure of human language belongs to a linear sequence: deixis central word complement. Phrase syntactic shift by changing the original linear order, get new linear order. Moro (2000) is that the different linear sequence is compressed into a hierarchy of three-dimensional linear order, rather than shifting achieved by the syntax. Thus, he proposed the theory of a weakened version of the anti-symmetric, that is, dynamic symmetric theory. The theory is that four kinds of the tree structure is not a tree structure of the different variants, but the four kinds of characteristics having respective different and represent a linear sequence of independent parse trees. In this paper, this debate has been a syntactic structure associated with the four kinds of empirical research. A random sample of 20 subjects participated in the experiment. They appear on the screen need to determine whether the Japanese and Japanese SOV sentences grammar structure. Total of 252 sentences were divided into three groups. The first group of materials with 84 correct Japanese sentence, on behalf of the second syntax tree, which is SOV structure; second group of materials, including 84 Japanese sentence errors, syntax tree belonging to the third and fourth, that VOS and OVS structure; third group contains 84 errors materials Japanese sentence, on behalf of the other two syntactic structure, ie VSO and OSV. Sentence grouping is primarily based on the following considerations. Sentence subject, predicate and object can be generated by changing the order of six kinds of syntactic tree structure in which the Chinese the SVO structure is excluded. The remaining five species are divided in three groups, respectively sentences. If the third group and the other two groups in reaction time and accuracy are obvious differences exist, then it can be proved from the side dynamic anti-symmetry theory, and vice versa. Software E-Prime psychological experiments of this experiment is the main data collection tool, used to record the test of reaction and reaction time. Statistical data analysis software SPSS were mainly from the reaction, the average response time and response accuracy analysis. First, SPSS 20 software will be tried on three groups of Japanese sentences reaction twenty-two divided into a set of paired samples were analyzed. In addition to being tried nine other 19 subjects paired sample analysis results and default opposite. In addition, three groups of sentences correct responses corresponding to the average response time indicates that syntactic structure VSO and VOS and OVS and OSV similar. This conclusion and preset the opposite. For three sentences correct response rates were tested further analysis revealed that only 3 and 5 were tested consistent with the preset. In other words, reaction time, reaction time, and the average rate of correct responses can not prove the correctness of the dynamic anti-symmetry. This constitutes a total of six chapters. The first chapter is an introduction, a brief description of the background, objectives, significance and paper layouts. The second chapter introduces the theory associated with dynamic antisymmetric important theoretical and recalled the syntax tree of the four previous studies. The third chapter explains the theoretical framework. Chapter conducted on four kinds of syntactic tree empirical research, and then analyzed the participants judged the reaction when the sentence is false when and accuracy. Chapter V concludes the paper, and then explain the significance of this study, and the lack of prospects for future research.

Dynamic symmetric theory : An Empirical Study Based on the mirror structure

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