Cross-Domain Priming From Mathematics to Relative-Clause Attachment: A Visual-World Study in French.
Cross-Domain Priming From Mathematics to Relative-Clause Attachment: A Visual-World Study in French.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02056
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2018
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Scheepers C
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作者：
Pozniak C;Hemforth B;Scheepers C
人类语言处理必须依赖于一定程度的抽象，因为我们可以产生和理解我们以前从未产生或听到过的句子。建立句法抽象的方法之一是研究结构启动。结构启动已被证明是有效的认知领域内，在这种情况下，语言域。但是，启动是否也适用于不同的领域？与先前的实验一致，我们研究了法语中从数学表达式到语言结构的跨域结构启动（例如，la fille du professeur qui habitait à巴黎/住在巴黎的教师的女儿）。测试启动在法语中是特别有趣的，因为它会扩展早期的结果建立了英语的语言中的关系从句连接偏好的基线是不同的形式英语：在英语中，关系从句（RC）往往被附加到当地的名词短语（低附件），而在法语中有一个优先级为高附件的关系从句的第一个名词短语（NP）。此外，与早期的研究相比，我们应用了在线技术（视觉世界眼动跟踪）。我们的研究结果证实了法语中从数学到语言结构的跨域启动。最有趣的是，与数学不太熟练的参与者不同，我们发现，在数学熟练的参与者中，这种效果很早就出现了（在言语流中关系从句的开始），并且在之后（在关系从句的结尾）也出现了。与以前的研究结果一致，我们的实验表明，数学和语言在非常高的抽象层次上共享句法结构。
Human language processing must rely on a certain degree of abstraction, as we can produce and understand sentences that we have never produced or heard before. One way to establish syntactic abstraction is by investigating structural priming. Structural priming has been shown to be effective within a cognitive domain, in the present case, the linguistic domain. But does priming also work across different domains? In line with previous experiments, we investigated cross-domain structural priming from mathematical expressions to linguistic structures with respect to relative clause attachment in French (e.g., la fille du professeur qui habitait à Paris/the daughter of the teacher who lived in Paris). Testing priming in French is particularly interesting because it will extend earlier results established for English to a language where the baseline for relative clause attachment preferences is different form English: in English, relative clauses (RCs) tend to be attached to the local noun phrase (low attachment) while in French there is a preference for high attachment of relative clauses to the first noun phrase (NP). Moreover, in contrast to earlier studies, we applied an online-technique (visual world eye-tracking). Our results confirm cross-domain priming from mathematics to linguistic structures in French. Most interestingly, different from less mathematically adept participants, we found that in mathematically skilled participants, the effect emerged very early on (at the beginning of the relative clause in the speech stream) and is also present later (at the end of the relative clause). In line with previous findings, our experiment suggests that mathematics and language share aspects of syntactic structure at a very high-level of abstraction.
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