“Anaphoric Islands” Revisited
“Anaphoric Islands” Revisited
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重访“照应群岛”
DOI：
10.1080/14640748808402295
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发表时间：
1988
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
J. Oakhill
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文献类型：
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作者：
A. Garnham;J. Oakhill
本文报道了两个实验，受试者对一个句子或从句的可接受性进行了时序判断，该句子或从句的代词跟在显性的名词性先行词(如…)之后Dreams…他们(Them…)或与该名词对应的动词所暗示的隐含先行词。在实验1中，动词与名义先行词(梦境)相同，而在实验2中，动词与名义先行词不同(梦境)。在这两个实验中，带有隐性先行词的代词被认为比那些带有显性先行词的代词更难被接受。这一趋势在实验2中表现得更为明显。此外，对具有隐性先行词的代词做出判断的时间要长于具有显性先行词的代词判断时间。然而，在两个实验中，对判断时间的影响是相似的。这些结果表明，当人们阅读诸如做梦之类的活动时，他们不会自动在他们对文章的心理表征中代表梦，而是必须从随后对梦的代词引用中推断梦的存在。
This paper reports two experiments in which subjects made timed judgements about the acceptability of a sentence or clause containing a pronoun that followed either an explicit nominal antecedent (e.g. … dreams … them …) or an implicit antecedent suggested by the verb corresponding to the noun. In Experiment 1 the verb was identical to the nominal antecedent (dreams), and in Experiment 2 it was different (dreamed). In both experiments pronouns with implicit antecedents were judged less acceptable than those with explicit antecedents. This tendency was more pronounced in Experiment 2. Furthermore, the times to make the judgements about pronouns with implicit antecedents were longer than for those with explicit antecedents. However, the effect on judgement times was of a similar magnitude in both experiments. These results suggest that when people read about an activity such as dreaming, they do not automatically represent dreams in their mental representation of the passage, but must infer their existence from a subsequent pronominal reference to them.