Comprehending Conceptual Anaphors in Spanish.
Comprehending Conceptual Anaphors in Spanish.
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理解西班牙语中的概念照应词。
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10.1080/01690969208409388
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1992
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Gernsbacher,MortonAnn
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作者：
Carreiras,Manuel;Gernsbacher,MortonAnn
本文研究了将先行词分配给照应元素所涉及的机制。一般来说，代词必须至少在数量和性别方面与其先行词相匹配。多个实验已显示出对此类限制的敏感性。但 Gernsbacher (1991) 也表明，人们毫无困难地理解带有先行词的复数代词，该先行词在语法上是单数但在概念上是复数。在前三个实验中，我们测试了西班牙语中的零照应词是否保留了这种“概念效应”。 （西班牙语中主语位置代词的典型省略。）第二个子句中的动词标有复数或单数结尾。当复数动词后面跟随三种单数但概念上复数的先行词时，复数动词被认为比单数动词更自然（实验 1）。包含复数动词的从句在遵循一种单数但概念上复数的先行词（即集体集合）时，阅读速度会更快（实验 2 和 3）。事实上，包含复数动词的从句在字面意义上的单数集体集合或明确的集体名词后面时，阅读速度同样快。使用代词照应词，这些阅读时间效果被复制并扩展到包含通用类型作为先行词的句子（实验 4）。结果根据照应词理解过程中信息的使用进行了讨论。
This paper examines the mechanisms involved in the assignment of an antecedent to an anaphoric element. In general, pronouns must match their antecedents at least with respect to number and gender. Sensitivity to such constraints has been shown in several experiments. But Gernsbacher (1991) has also shown that people have no difficulty comprehending a plural pronoun with an antecedent that is grammatically singular but conceptually plural. In the first three experiments, we tested whether such a “conceptual effect” was preserved with zero anaphors in Spanish. (The typical omission of pronouns in subject position in Spanish.) Verbs in a second clause were marked with plural or singular endings. Plural verbs were rated more natural than singular verbs when they followed three types of singular but conceptually plural antecedents (Experiment 1). Clauses containing plural verbs were read faster when they followed one type of singular but conceptually plural antecedents, i.e. collective sets (Experiments 2 and 3). In fact, clauses containing plural verbs were read equally fast when they followed literally singular collective sets or explicitly group nouns. Using pronominal anaphors, these reading time effects were replicated and extended to sentences that contained generic types as antecedents (Experiment 4). The results are discussed in terms of the use of information during the comprehension of anaphors.