Online syntactic storage costs in sentence comprehension
Online syntactic storage costs in sentence comprehension
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2004.10.001
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Wolf, F
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作者：
Chen, E;Gibson, E;Wolf, F
本文介绍了三个自定进度的，逐词的阅读实验，测试是否存在在线句法存储/期望成本的英语。为了研究这个问题，我们比较了句子区域的阅读时间，其中句法期望成本变化，保持其他因素不变。实验1操纵了形成一个合乎语法的句子所需的动词数量。据观察，在临界区，人们阅读的条件，其中零个动词被预测最快，其次是条件，其中一个动词被预测，其中两个动词被预测最慢的条件。实验2和3调查是否不完全的填料间隙的依赖性也引起存储成本。据观察，人们阅读wh-filler待定的关键区域比没有此类wh-filler待定的情况要慢。所有三个实验的结果都证明了在线句法存储成本在句子理解中的作用。(C)2004年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
This paper presents three self-paced, word-by-word reading experiments that test for the existence of on-line syntactic storage/expectation costs in English. To investigate this issue, we compared reading times for sentence regions in which syntactic expectation costs varied, keeping other factors constant. Experiment 1 manipulated the number of verbs needed to form a grammatical sentence. It was observed that in the critical region, people read the condition in which zero verbs were predicted fastest, followed by the conditions in which one verb was predicted, with the condition in which two verbs were predicted slowest. Experiments 2 and 3 investigated whether incomplete filler-gap dependencies also incur storage costs. It was observed that people read the critical region in which a wh-filler is pending slower than if no such wh-filler is pending. The results of all three experiments demonstrate the role of online syntactic storage costs in sentence comprehension. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.