Professor conducts studies in China
By Greg Kline
Tuesday July 5, 2005
by Darrell Hoemann
University of Illinois Professor Jerry Packard was joined on his trip to China by his son Eric and wife, Carol. Eric attended a Chinese high school, and Carol, and administrator in the UI College of Medicine, did research for her doctoral thesis.
When a clause like "the man who hit the ball is my father" appears in a sentence, English speakers' brains breeze through it, but the brain of a Chinese speaker hearing it in Chinese has to make an extra effort to sort out the meaning.
If the clause is "the man who the ball hit is my father" the opposite occurs. No problem for Chinese speakers. English speakers have to work at it.
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