Abstract
Based on the experiment with the brain damaged patients as subjects, this paper attempts to examine whether the two effects work in Chinese as well. The findings demonstrate that (1) the effects are true to but work differently in Chinese; (2) the continuum of valency quantity seems more valid in explaining the quantity effect found in Chinese subjects; (3) from the perspective of valency quantity, bi-valency verbs serve as the prototype of Chinese verbs and bi-valency structure as the proto-structure; and (4) from the perspective of valency quality, verb valency is binary in semantics: the proto-valency and non-proto-valency, and hence the former is easier to be decoded than the latter in speech production.
| Keywords: | verb; valency; quality effects; quantity effects |
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