On the universality of language comprehension strategies: Evidence from Turkish
On the universality of language comprehension strategies: Evidence from Turkish
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2007.01.008
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina
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作者：
Demiral, Suekrue Baris;Schlesewsk, Matthias;Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina
心理语言学研究的一个基本问题是理解策略的普遍性。我们通过研究土耳其语中所谓的“主语偏好”来调查这个问题，土耳其语是一种允许对最初的模糊论点进行自然（无标记）对象阅读的语言。使用事件相关脑电位（ERP），我们观察到增加的处理难度的形式广泛分布的积极性时，一个最初的模糊的论点是消除歧义的对象阅读。这种效应与歧义论元的生命性（即语义主语原型性）无关。因此，我们的研究结果有利于一个普遍的倾向，解释遇到的第一个参数作为“主题”的条款，即使在语言中提供没有明显的结构性动机，这样一个战略。然而，我们认为，这种偏好的基本解释必须根据跨语言的考虑进行修改。(c)2007 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
A fundamental question in psycholinguistic research concerns the universality of comprehension strategies. We investigated this issue by examining the so-called "subject preference" in Turkish, a language which allows for a natural (unmarked) object reading of an initial ambiguous argument. Using event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we observed increased processing difficulty in the form of a broadly distributed positivity when an initial ambiguous argument was disambiguated towards an object reading. This effect was independent of the animacy (i.e. semantic subject prototypicality) of the ambiguous argument. Our results therefore speak in favour of a universal tendency to interpret the first argument encountered as the "subject" of the clause, even in languages providing no obvious structural motivation for such a strategy. However, we argue that the underlying explanation for this preference must be modified in accordance with cross-linguistic considerations. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.