Xiaohe Sun

Whether there are articles in Chinese has become a hot topic, and some people equate Chinese classifiers to articles. This paper aims to summarize the factors that affect the psychological processing of classifiers by reviewing the ERP research literature on classifiers, and then provide suggestions for ERP experimental design to address the controversy over whether classifiers are articles. Research has shown that the strength of sentence constraint, the specificity of classifiers and the animacy of the corresponding nouns could influence classifier processing, which provides reference for the design of further experiments.

classifier; Mandarin Chinese; N400; sentence comprehension

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