Givenness, complexity, and the Danish dative alternation
Givenness, complexity, and the Danish dative alternation
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给定性、复杂性和丹麦语与格交替
DOI：
10.3758/s13421-013-0336-3
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Laura Winther Balling
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作者：
Johannes Kizach;Laura Winther Balling
本研究通过两个实验考察了给定性和复杂性对句法结构选择的影响。实验一表明，在丹麦语与格交替中，给予新的顺序只对双宾语结构和NP结构更容易加工，而PP结构不受影响。这重复了先前对英语与格交替的发现。实验2表明，当一个长NP之前的一个短NP-次优的复杂性关系的影响被中和，而给定性仍然是有影响力的复杂性关系时，在句子中的NP是最佳的。这与在线句法分析中实际的句法结构构建过程是主要的，而任何高阶计算（如话语连接）是次要的观点一致。双宾结构中NP的相对复杂性直接影响着结构的构建过程，而语篇结构的解码则是一个较晚且不那么关键的现象，在复杂性关系次优的情况下，会导致给予性效应的中和。
In this study, we investigated the interaction between givenness and complexity on the choice of syntactic structure, via two experiments using speeded acceptability judgments. Experiment 1 showed that for the Danish dative alternation, given–new orders are only easier to process for double-object or NP constructions, whereas PP constructions are unaffected. This replicates previous findings for the English dative alternation. Experiment 2 revealed that when a long NP precedes a short NP—a suboptimal complexity relation—the effect of givenness is neutralized, whereas givenness remains influential when the complexity relation between the NPs in the sentence is optimal. This is consistent with the view that in online parsing, the actual syntactic structure-building process is primary, whereas any higher-order computations such as discourse linking are secondary. The relative complexity of the NPs in the double-object construction directly affects the structure-building process, whereas the decoding of the discourse structure is a later and less crucial phenomenon, resulting in neutralization of the givenness effect in cases in which the complexity relation is suboptimal.