Anaphoric agreement violation: An ERP analysis of its interpretation
Anaphoric agreement violation: An ERP analysis of its interpretation
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10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.006
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2008-02
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3.4
通讯作者：
Nicola Molinaro;Albert Kim;F. Vespignani;R. Job
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作者：
Nicola Molinaro;Albert Kim;F. Vespignani;R. Job
在本研究中，我们分析了语法异常句子的处理过程，例如“*著名舞者正在紧张地准备面对人群。”，其中包含两个异常，一个早，一个晚。我们研究了后期异常（在代词“她自己”或“他们自己”处）的处理如何受到早期异常（在“是”处）的处理的影响。我们考虑了涉及第一个异常的两种处理场景：（1）第一个动词处的主谓数一致错误的表示被强制与动词匹配，使“她自己”变得异常； （2）主谓一致错误的表示被强制与主语名词匹配，使“他们自己”变得异常。我们的依赖指标是事件相关头皮电位（ERP）。当代词与动词不一致（并且与主语一致）时，记录 P600，而相反的情况则不会产生可靠的效果。我们的数据表明，反身代词的解释涉及多个词汇项目的重新激活，包括动词。
In the present study we analyzed the processing of grammatically anomalous sentences like “∗The famous dancerwerenervously preparingherself/themselvesto face the crowd.”, which contains two anomalies, one early and one late. We investigated how processing of the later anomaly (at the pronoun ‘herself’ or ‘themselves’) was affected by the processing of the early anomaly (at ‘were’). We considered two processing scenarios involving the first anomaly: (1) The representation of the subject–verb number agreement error at the first verb is coerced to match the verb, rendering ‘herself’ anomalous; (2) The representation of the subject–verb agreement error is coerced to match the subject noun, rendering ‘themselves’ anomalous. Our dependent measure was event-related scalp potentials (ERPs). When the pronoun disagreed with the verb (and agreed with the subject), a P600 was recorded, while the opposite condition elicited no reliable effect. Our data suggest that interpretation of reflexive pronouns involves the reactivation of multiple lexical items, verbs included.