Charting the time-course of VP-ellipsis sentence comprehension: Evidence for an initial and independent structural analysis.
Charting the time-course of VP-ellipsis sentence comprehension: Evidence for an initial and independent structural analysis.
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DOI：
10.1016/s0749-596x(03)00026-3
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发表时间：
2003-07
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
L. Shapiro;A. Hestvik;A. Hestvik;Lesli Lesan;A. R. Garcia
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作者：
L. Shapiro;A. Hestvik;A. Hestvik;Lesli Lesan;A. R. Garcia
我们利用了VP省略结构的特性，这些结构包含固有的自反性和不可剥夺的拥有动词，这些动词严重限制了最终的解释（例如，“警察作了伪证，消防员也作了伪证......”）。通过跨通道词汇启动实验，我们发现受试者在第二小句中省略的位置重新激活了第一小句的主语NP（即，“严格”阅读），即使动词属性不允许这样的解释。我们还发现，受试者从第二小句中重新激活了主语NP，这表明了“草率”的解释。在最后一个实验中，我们考察了不包含照应词的VP省略结构（例如，“邮递员为复活节买了一条领带，他的兄弟也买了一条..我们发现，只有第一个小句的宾语NP在第二个小句中被重构。我们解释这些发现作为支持的解析器，计算多种解释在线，但最初是不敏感的词汇和概率信息。
We exploited the properties of VP-ellipsis constructions containing inherently reflexive and inalienable possession verbs that severely constrained final interpretation (e.g., “The policeman perjured himself, and the fireman did too…”). Using the cross-modal lexical priming task, we found that listeners reactivated the subject NP from the first clause at the elided position in the second clause (i.e., the “strict” reading), even though verb properties disallowed such an interpretation. We also found that listeners reactivated the subject NP from the second clause, demonstrating the “sloppy” interpretation. In a final experiment we examined VP-ellipsis constructions that did not contain anaphors (e.g., “The mailman bought a tie for Easter, and his brother did too…”). We found that only the object NP of the first clause was reconstructed in the second clause. We interpret these findings as support for a parser that computes multiple interpretations on-line, yet is initially insensitive to lexical and probabilistic information.