THEMATIC ROLES IN SENTENCE PARSING
THEMATIC ROLES IN SENTENCE PARSING
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DOI：
10.1037/h0078817
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发表时间：
1993-06-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
CLIFTON, C
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作者：
CLIFTON, C
两个眼球跟踪实验测试了人们对句子的阅读，比如“当警察/卡车停下来时，达特森消失在了夜色中。”主位结构与句子理解。在G.N.Carlson和M.K.Tanenhaus(编辑)，Language Structure in Language Processing，1989)中，一个无生命的主体(在卡车停下来后，Datsun...‘’中的‘Truck’)作为作格动词的主位(‘’Stop‘’)，防止将动词后的名词短语(‘’Datun‘’)指定为直接宾语。这消除了通常在消解歧义的动词上观察到的阅读中断(‘’消失‘’)。本实验在观察句子的歧义消解区域时发现了Stowe报告的结果模式。然而，早期区域的研究结果表明，动词后名词短语最初被认为是作格动词的直接宾语，即使主语是无生命的。看来，主语的无意识可能并没有指导最初的句法分析，而是促进了对最初错误分析的修正。
Two eyetracking experiments examined the reading of sentences like ''While the police/truck stopped the Datsun disappeared into the night.'' A paper by L. Stowe (Thematic structures and sentence comprehension. In G. N. Carlson and M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Linguistic structure in language processing, 1989) indicated that an inanimate subject (''truck'' in ''After the truck stopped the Datsun disappeared...'') is taken as theme of the ergative verb (''stop''), preventing the assignment of the postverbal noun phrase (''the Datsun'') as direct object. This eliminates the disruption of reading that is normally observed on the disambiguating verb (''disappear''). The present experiments found the pattern of results reported by Stowe when looking at the disambiguating region of a sentence. However, the results for earlier regions suggest that the postverbal noun phrase was initially taken as direct object of an ergative verb even when the subject was inanimate. It appears that the inanimacy of the subject may not have guided the initial syntactic analysis, but rather facilitated the revision of an initial misanalysis.