Abstract: Two experiments inverstigated the relationship between syntactic and semantic analysis in Chinese sentence comprehension. In experiment I, the sub-ject's self-paced reading paradigm was used and the subjects were asked tomake grammar-decision of each sentence, either plausible or implausible.Theresults showed that the ER difference between plausible and implausible sen-tences both for ambiguous words(AW)and disambiguous words (DAW) weresignificant. But only the RT difference was significant for DAW. In experi-ment 2, the effect of context on sentence comprehersion was studied. Theresults showed that the RT difference between two kinds of sentences underthe conditions with or without context both for AW and DAW were signifi-cant. These results support the weak interaction model of syntactic and se-mantic processing in sentence comprehension.

Key words: Syntactic analysis, Semantic analysis, Subject's self -paced reading, weak interaction model