Testing the effect of an arbitrary subject pronoun on relative clause comprehension: a study with Hebrew-speaking children
Testing the effect of an arbitrary subject pronoun on relative clause comprehension: a study with Hebrew-speaking children
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测试任意主语代词对关系从句理解的影响：一项针对希伯来语儿童的研究
DOI：
10.1017/s0305000917000599
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
F. Adani
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作者：
Yair Haendler;F. Adani
摘要以往的研究发现，讲希伯来语的儿童能够准确地理解带有非指称任意主语代词的宾语关系(OR)。从语篇语用学的角度和基于句法的局部性方法两个方面，都期望通过嵌入代词来促进OR的使用。然而，ASP的具体效果也可能是由中心名词和代词之间的语法特征不匹配或其相对不苛刻的指称属性所驱动的。我们通过比较嵌入主语为ASP、指代名词或词汇名词短语的OR来测试这些可能性。在所有条件下，语法特征都得到了控制。在指称辨认任务中，这些匹配特征使得五岁儿童很难将OR词和嵌入代词联系起来。当嵌入的代词是指代词时，准确率尤其低。这些结果表明，嵌入代词并不能全面促进OR，并且代词的指称属性影响OR加工。
Abstract Previous studies have found that Hebrew-speaking children accurately comprehend object relatives (OR) with an embedded non-referential arbitrary subject pronoun (ASP). The facilitation of ORs with embedded pronouns is expected both from a discourse-pragmatics perspective and within a syntax-based locality approach. However, the specific effect of ASP might also be driven by a mismatch in grammatical features between the head noun and the pronoun, or by its relatively undemanding referential properties. We tested these possibilities by comparing ORs whose embedded subject is either ASP, a referential pronoun, or a lexical noun phrase. In all conditions, grammatical features were controlled. In a referent-identification task, the matching features made ORs with embedded pronouns difficult for five-year-olds. Accuracy was particularly low when the embedded pronoun was referential. These results indicate that embedded pronouns do not facilitate ORs across the board, and that the referential properties of pronouns affect OR processing.
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
Jaeger, T. Florian
通讯作者：
Jaeger, T. Florian