Resolving Reflexive Pronouns in Chinese: An Experimental Approach

This book explores the resolution of Mandarin Chinese reflexive pronouns-ziji (‘self’) and ta-ziji (‘he/she-self’)-in language processing, focusing on how the human mind integrates multiple linguistic cues during comprehension through both theoretical and experimental approaches. It investigates the structural, semantic, and discourse-level properties of these reflexives, examining how syntactic and non-syntactic constraints shape real-time resolution.By introducing new empirical data, the book challenges established assumptions about Chinese reflexives, addressing whether locality bias reflects syntactic or linear proximity, how discourse-level factors influence ta-ziji interpretation, and how perspective-taking interacts with syntactic prominence in processing.These findings are synthesized into a unified framework that integrates syntactic and non-syntactic factors governing reflexive resolution in Chinese. This work is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in li