Syntax and processing in Seediq: a behavioral study
Syntax and processing in Seediq: a behavioral study
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10.1007/s10831-020-09207-7
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2020-05
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0.5
通讯作者：
Hajime Ono;Jungho Kim;Manami Sato;A. Tang;Masatoshi Koizumi
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作者：
Hajime Ono;Jungho Kim;Manami Sato;A. Tang;Masatoshi Koizumi
句法特征，如词序，是决定句子难度的一个主要因素。在SO型语言中，主语（S）在规范语序中位于宾语（O）之前，有明显的证据表明SO语序优于OS语序。我们调查在何种程度上保持这种SO偏见，即使在类型多样的语言，如特鲁克语，南岛语，其中动词-对象-主题（VOS）的词序是规范的和句法上的基本结构，和SVO是派生的词序和句法上更复杂的结构。重要的是要调查的词序偏好在特鲁克语，因为这样的查询使我们能够确定在何种程度上这些广泛观察到的处理偏好是基于语言系统的属性和/或更普遍的人类认知属性。句法复杂性帐户预测，在特鲁库，派生的SVO语序应该是更昂贵的，而显着性帐户预测，其中代理先于主题的语序是首选。我们的听觉理解实验表明，操作系统的词序是首选的母语的特鲁克语。这表明，经常观察到的SO偏好并不是语言的普遍特征。此外，缺乏一个明确的指示代理前主题的偏好表明一个给定的语言和显着性因素的重要性之间的语音属性的相关性。
Syntactic properties such as word orders are a major factor determining the difficulty of a sentence. In SO-type languages where the subject (S) precedes the object (O) in canonical word order, there is clear evidence that the SO word order is preferred over the OS word order. We investigate to what extent this SO bias is maintained even in typologically diverse languages like Truku, an Austronesian language, in which the Verb-Object-Subject (VOS) word order is canonical and a syntactically basic structure, and SVO is the derived word order and a syntactically more complex structure. It is important to investigate word order preferences in Truku because such inquiries allow us to determine to what extent these widely observed processing preferences are grounded in properties of the linguistic system and/or somewhat more general human cognitive properties. The syntactic complexity account predicts that, in Truku, the derived SVO word order should be more costly, while the saliency account predicts that the word orders in which an agent precedes a theme is preferred. Our auditory comprehension experiment showed that the OS word order was preferred by native speakers of Truku. This indicates that the often-observed SO preference is not a universal feature of language. Furthermore, the lack of a clear indication of the agent-before-theme preference suggests a correlation between the voice property of a given language and the importance of the saliency factor.