The Timing of Verb Selection in Japanese Sentence Production
The Timing of Verb Selection in Japanese Sentence Production
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DOI：
10.1037/xlm0000195
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发表时间：
2016-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Phillips, Colin
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作者：
Momma, Shota;Slevc, L. Robert;Phillips, Colin
许多有影响力的句子生成模型(如Bock&Levelt，1994；Kempen&Hoenkamp，1987；Levelt，1989)强调动词在结构编码中的中心作用，因此预测动词在句子形成的早期就应该被选择，甚至可能在第一个成分的语音编码之前(Ferreira，2000)。然而，对这一假说进行的最直接的实验检验(Schriefers，Teruel，&Meinhausen，1998)没有发现德语动词-末语(主语动词和主语-宾语-动词)话语中存在提前动词选择的证据。本研究基于多词图词干扰任务(Meyer，1996；Schriefers et al.，1998)，研究表明，在日语中，动词确实是提前计划的，但有选择地先于宾语名词发音而不是主语名词发音。高级动词选择的这种对比模式可能会调和结构编码中高级动词选择的动机，同时解释之前未能证明这一点的原因。潜在的机制，可能支持这种对比模式的高级动词选择进行了讨论。
Many influential models of sentence production (e.g., Bock & Levelt, 1994; Kempen & Hoenkamp, 1987; Levelt, 1989) emphasize the central role of verbs in structural encoding, and thus predict that verbs should be selected early in sentence formulation, possibly even before the phonological encoding of the first constituent (Ferreira, 2000). However, the most direct experimental test of this hypothesis (Schriefers, Teruel, & Meinshausen, 1998) found no evidence for advance verb selection in verb-final (subjectverb and subject-object-verb) utterances in German. The current study, based on a multiword pictureword interference task (Meyer, 1996; Schriefers et al., 1998), demonstrates that in Japanese, a strongly verb-final language, verbs are indeed planned in advance, but selectively before object noun articulation and not before subject noun articulation. This contrasting pattern of advance verb selection may reconcile the motivation for advance verb selection in structural encoding while explaining the previous failures to demonstrate it. Potential mechanisms that might underlie this contrasting pattern of advance verb selection are discussed.