Object attraction in subject-verb agreement construction
Object attraction in subject-verb agreement construction
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DOI：
10.1006/jmla.2000.2787
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发表时间：
2001-11-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
van Zee, M
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作者：
Hartsuiker, RJ;Antón-Méndez, I;van Zee, M
三个实验中，引起的错误的主谓一致性评估的句法功能和词性的成分出现在动词之前。博克和米勒（1991）指出，修饰主语的成分会产生“吸引效应”，即当该成分的语法数量与主语中心名词的语法数量不同时，一致性错误的发生率会增加。实验Ia.在荷兰进行的，表明这种吸引效应并不局限于句子中的数量不匹配的信息是嵌入在主题：直接对象的名词短语发挥吸引效应，以及，虽然一个较小的比主题修饰名词短语。实验lb用新材料复制了这种效果，排除了可能的混淆与句子的可解释性。实验2表明，直接宾语代词产生的吸引效应与观察到的名词一样强，除非代词是明确的情况下标记。在这种情况下，没有吸引力的效果。这些结果被解释的假设，“吸引人”和主题中心名词之间的短语节点的数量决定的吸引力效应的强度。(C)北京：科学出版社.
Three experiments in which errors of subject-verb agreement were elicited assessed the effects of syntactic function and part of speech of the constituent appearing immediately before the verb. Bock and Miller (1991) have shown that constituents modifying the subject exert an "attraction effect," an increased rate of agreement errors when that constituent has a grammatical number different from that of the subject head noun. Experiment Ia. conducted in Dutch, showed that such an attraction effect is not restricted to sentences in which the number mismatching information is embedded within the subject: Direct-object noun phrases exert an attraction effect as well, although a smaller one than subject modifier noun phrases. Experiment lb replicated this effect with new materials, excluding a possible confound with plausibility of the sentences. Experiment 2 showed that direct-object pronouns exert an attraction effect about as strong as that observed with nouns, unless the pronoun is explicitly case-marked. In such circumstances no attraction effect obtains. These results are interpreted within the hypothesis that the number of phrasal nodes intervening between "attractor" and subject head noun determines the strength of attraction effects. (C) 2001 Academic Press.