Prominence Facilitates Ambiguity Resolution: On the Interaction Between Referentiality, Thematic Roles and Word Order in Syntactic Reanalysis

Prominence Facilitates Ambiguity Resolution: On the Interaction Between Referentiality, Thematic Roles and Word Order in Syntactic Reanalysis
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突出性促进歧义消解:论句法重分析中指称性、主题角色和词序之间的相互作用

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10.1007/978-94-007-1463-2_11
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2012
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Kretzschmar;Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Schlesewsky

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在两个眼动追踪实验中,我们研究了德语嵌入从句中主语偏好与语义词序约束之间的关系(即与名词短语的特殊性/指称性相关的突出等级、格分配和主题角色分配)。我们的中心研究问题涉及突出信息使用的时间过程,特别是它是否调节受试者偏好。在这两个实验中,我们重复了先前的发现,即对象初始结构的再分析效果。我们的研究结果进一步表明,名词短语的显著性并没有改变最初的分析策略(即主语偏好),而是调节了后来再分析过程的便利性。在实验1中,动词指定的宾语格不影响再分析的容易程度。然而,当两个参数的顺序违反特异性/指称性层次结构时,句法再分析变得更加困难。实验2表明,动词的初始主语偏好也适用于宾语-初始基序(即宾语-经验动词)。然而,在相对较晚的加工阶段,主位角色层次和特异性层次的融合促进了混乱,从而抵消了主语首句的优势。
In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated the relationship between the subject preference in the resolution of subject-object ambiguities in German embedded clauses and semantic word order constraints (i.e., prominence hierarchies relating to the specificity/referentiality of noun phrases, case assignment and thematic role assignment). Our central research question concerned the timecourse with which prominence information is used and particularly whether it modulates the subject preference. In both experiments, we replicated previous findings of reanalysis effects for object-initial structures. Our findings further suggest that noun phrase prominence does not alter initial parsing strategies (viz., the subject preference), but rather modulates the ease of later reanalysis processes. In Experiment 1, the object case assigned by the verb did not affect the ease of reanalysis. However, the syntactic reanalysis was rendered more difficult when the order of the two arguments violated the specificity/referentiality hierarchy. Experiment 2 revealed that the initial subject preference also holds for verbs favoring an object-initial base order (i.e., dative object-experiencer verbs). However, the advantage for subject-initial sentences is neutralized in relatively late processing stages when the thematic role hierarchy and the specificity hierarchy converge to promote scrambling.
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