Resumptive Pronouns Can Ameliorate Illicit Island Extractions
Resumptive Pronouns Can Ameliorate Illicit Island Extractions
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DOI：
10.1162/ling_a_00291
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Yoshida, Masaya
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作者：
Ackerman, Lauren;Frazier, Michael;Yoshida, Masaya
心理语言学文献报道，认知代词（RP）改善岛屿违规行为，但许多心理语言学文献发现RP并不比直截了当的岛屿违规间隙更容易接受，即使岛屿生产任务始终引起RP。然而，心理语言学研究通常间接比较RP和非法间隙条件。我们认为，RP岛改善理解是不可检测的，当参与者不能比较替代句子，因此，明显的生产/理解分裂产生的感知和生产实验之间的方法差异。我们提出了六个实验跨越三个岛屿类型的两个任务（整句强迫选择和强迫选择填空），操纵间隙位置（岛与非岛）。我们发现，RP是首选的岛屿和非岛屿的差距（p = .0001）。这表明，RP确实改善了岛屿侵犯，生产/理解分裂是一种方法上的人工制品。
Syntax literature reports that resumptive pronouns (RPs) ameliorate island violations, but much psycholinguistics literature has found RPs to be no more acceptable than straightforwardly island-violating gaps, even though island production tasks consistently elicit RPs. However, psycholinguistic studies have typically compared RP and illicit gap conditions indirectly. We posit that RP island amelioration in comprehension is undetectable when participants cannot compare alternative sentences, and thus that the apparent production/comprehension split arises from methodological differences between perception and production experiments. We present six experiments crossing three island types in two tasks (full-sentence forced choice and forced-choice fill-in-the-blank), manipulating gap location (island vs. nonisland). We find that RPs are preferred in islands and gaps in nonislands (p = .0001). This suggests that RPs do ameliorate island violations and that the production/comprehension split is a methodological artifact.