What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?
What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2021.104288
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发表时间：
2021-09-16
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Ferreira, Fernanda
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作者：
Huang, Yujing;Ferreira, Fernanda
句子处理研究中的一个关键问题是被错误分析的句子如何被重新解释，以及分析器的修正尝试在多大程度上是成功的。过去的研究表明，即使在整个句子被处理之后，与句法错误分析相关的误解仍然存在（Christianson，Hollingworth，Halliwell，& Ferreira，2001; Slattery，Sturt，Christianson，Yoshida和Ferreira，2013）。在两个阅读实验中，我们试图评估表征水平，负责花园路径句子的误解。我们将阅读测量与离线理解任务相结合，这使我们能够将阅读时间分析条件化为正确与不正确的问答表现。我们的研究结果表明，重新分析并不总是导致一个正确的解释，无论是因为最终的解释并不总是反映全球的结构，或者因为重新分析过程中的合法本地树的创建，但未能产生一个完整的全球解析整个句子。
A key question in research on sentence processing concerns how sentences that have been misanalyzed are reinterpreted, and to what extent the parser's attempts at revision are successful. Past work has shown that misinterpretations associated with a syntactic misparse linger even after the entire sentence has been processed (Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell, & Ferreira, 2001; Slattery, Sturt, Christianson, Yoshida and Ferreira, 2013). In two reading experiments, we sought to evaluate the level of representation that is responsible for misinterpretations of garden-path sentences. We combined reading measures with an offline comprehension task, which enabled us to conditionalize reading time analyses on correct versus incorrect question-answering performance. Our results suggest that reanalysis does not always result in a correct interpretation, either because the final interpretation does not always reflect the global structure or because reanalysis processes result in the creation of licit local trees but fail to generate a complete global parse for the entire sentence.