An ERP study of anaphor resolution with focused and non-focused antecedents
An ERP study of anaphor resolution with focused and non-focused antecedents
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10.1515/psych-2018-0021
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2019-01
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L. Hald;H. Cowles;Alan Garnham
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作者：
L. Hald;H. Cowles;Alan Garnham
摘要 本研究的目的是更好地理解先行词和照应词之间的语义重叠以及先行词焦点的组合何时（以及为何）导致照应词处理困难。为了研究这些问题，三个操纵语义重叠和焦点的 ERP 实验比较了照应词开头以及包含照应词的句子中最后一个词开始的 ERP。我们的结果表明，尽管先行词的焦点状态以及先行词和照应词之间的语义重叠很重要，但这些因素并不是在线照应词解析的唯一重要因素。读者对主题转变的期望等因素也会影响处理。我们考虑我们的结果与照应消解的两个解释相关，即信息负载假设（Almor，1999；Almor＆Eimas，2008）和JANUS（Garnham＆Cowles，2008）。
Abstract The goal of this study is to better understand when (and why) the combination of semantic overlap between antecedent and anaphor and antecedent focus leads to difficulty in anaphor processing. To investigate these questions, three ERP experiments manipulating semantic overlap and focus compared the ERPs from the onset of the anaphor as well as from the onset of the last word in the sentence containing the anaphor. Our results suggest that although the focus status of an antecedent and the semantic overlap between the antecedent and anaphor are important, these factors are not the only significant contributors to online anaphor resolution. Factors such as readers’ expectations about thematic shifts also influence the processing. We consider our results in relation to two accounts of anaphor resolution, the Informational Load Hypothesis (Almor, 1999; Almor & Eimas, 2008) and JANUS (Garnham & Cowles, 2008).