Who is ziji? ERP responses to the Chinese reflexive pronoun during sentence comprehension
Who is ziji? ERP responses to the Chinese reflexive pronoun during sentence comprehension
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DOI：
10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.050
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发表时间：
2010-05-17
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Zhou, Xiaolin
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作者：
Li, Xiaoqian;Zhou, Xiaolin
乔姆斯基（1981）约束理论的原则A要求句子中的反身代词在其支配范畴内与其先行词相约束。然而，在汉语中，"P-NP 1 + VP 1 + P-NP 2 + VP 2+自己"这一常见结构中，P-NP代表人名，反身代词"自己"（代表我自己、他自己、她自己、你自己、我们自己等），取决于上下文）在对象位置，ziji可以指局部主语（P-NP 2，局部引用）或矩阵或主主语（P-NP 1，长距离引用）或两者（模糊引用），取决于VP 2的属性。本研究探讨了在句子理解过程中，这种违反原则A的行为是否伴随着加工成本。在事件相关电位（ERP）实验中，我们发现，与本地参考条件相比，在远距离参考条件下，对字的ERP反应显著更积极。这种模式出现在P300和P600上。这表明，在句子理解过程中，将反身代词与一个遥远的先行词联系起来需要更多的加工资源。P300效应可能反映了基于原则A的心理表征与基于局部动词加工的心理表征之间的不一致性检测，而P600效应可能与将反身代词与矩阵主语联系起来的第二遍整合过程有关。(C)2010爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
The Principle A of Chomsky's (1981) Binding Theory requires the reflexive pronoun in a sentence to be bound to its antecedent within its governing category. However, in Chinese sentences with a common structure "P-NP1+VP1+P-NP2+VP2+ziji", in which the P-NP stands for personal name and the reflexive ziji (standing for myself, himself, herself, yourself, ourselves etc., depending on context) is at the object position, ziji can refer to either the local subject (P-NP2, local reference) or the matrix or main subject (P-NP1, long-distance reference) or both (ambiguous reference), depending on properties of VP2. This study investigates whether this violation of Principle A comes with processing costs during sentence comprehension. In an event-related potential (ERP) experiment we found that, as compared with the local reference condition, ERP responses to ziji were significantly more positive in the long-distance reference condition. This pattern appeared on both P300 and P600. It is suggested that linking the reflexive with a distant, rather than a local, antecedent during sentence comprehension requires more processing resources. While the P300 effect may reflect the detection of incongruence between the mental representation based on Principle A and the representation based on the processing of local verb, the P600 effect may be associated with a second-pass integration process that links the reflexive with the matrix subject. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.