The Impact of Case and Prosody on the Availability of Argument Structures
The Impact of Case and Prosody on the Availability of Argument Structures
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格和韵律对论证结构可用性的影响
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-007-1463-2_8
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发表时间：
2012
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
T. Pechmann
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作者：
S. Pappert;T. Pechmann
将子范畴动词放在最后位置的德语句子在局部的论点结构上是不明确的。本文报告的研究目的是确定特定论点和韵律信息对备选论点结构可用性的影响。为了实现这一目标，在两个实验中研究了单和双物体结构的处理。材料由句子片段组成，以主语开头，后跟助动词和标记为格或宾格的宾语。此外，句子片段也因韵律的不同而不同，有从单宾语句中截取的，也有从双宾语句中截取的。在实验1中，这些句子片段由第二个宾语和一个及物动词补全（跨情态补全），而在实验2中，被试必须在片段的移位后命名一个与格一致的单及物动词（跨情态命名）。错误率（实验1）和发音潜伏期（实验2）显示大小写有影响，而韵律没有影响。我们的结论是，案例对论点结构的可用性有很强的影响，而韵律差异可能太微妙而无法影响这些任务的表现。讨论了增量句子理解模型的结果。
German sentences with the subcategorizing verb in the final position are locally underspecified with respect to argument structure. The aim of the study reported here was to ascertain the influence of argument-specific and prosodic information on the availability of alternative argument structures. To achieve this goal, the processing of single vs. double object structures was investigated in two experiments. Materials consisted of sentence fragments beginning with a subject followed by an auxiliary and an object that was either marked for the dative or accusative case. Moreover, sentence fragments differed by means of prosody, being either cut out of a single or double object sentence. In Experiment 1, these sentence fragments were presented for completion by a second object and a ditransitive verb (cross-modal completion), whereas in Experiment 2, subjects had to name a case-congruent monotransitive verb after the offset of the fragment (cross-modal naming). Error rates (Experiment 1) and articulation latencies (Experiment 2) revealed an effect of case but no effect of prosody. We conclude that case has a strong impact on argument structure availability and that prosodic differences may be too subtle to influence performance in these tasks. Consequences for models of incremental sentence comprehension are discussed.