Processing elided verb phrases with flawed antecedents: The recycling hypothesis
Processing elided verb phrases with flawed antecedents: The recycling hypothesis
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2006.02.005
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发表时间：
2006-08-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Moulton, Keir
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作者：
Arregui, Ana;Clifton, Charles, Jr.;Moulton, Keir
动词短语省略的传统句法解释（例如，”杰森笑了。山姆也是。）将语言使用者认为可以接受的许多句子归类为不合语法的（他们“生成不足”）;语义解释过度生成。我们认为，加工理论结合句法解释能更好地描述和解释动词短语省略现象。五个可接受性判断实验支持“VP回收假说”，它声称，当一个句法匹配的先行词是不可用的，听众/读者创建一个使用手头的材料。实验一和2使用动词短语省略句子的先行词范围从完美（一个动词短语在矩阵动词短语的位置）不可能（一个动词短语只包含一个动词词）。实验三和实验四对比了动名词和动词性动名词的先行词。实验5探讨了说话人特别有可能超越语法，产生省略成分没有完美匹配的先行词时，所需的先行词是标记比实际产生的先行词。这个实验对比了主动（无标记）和被动先行词，以表明读者似乎荣誉这种倾向。(c)2006年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Traditional syntactic accounts of verb phrase ellipsis (e.g., "Jason laughed. Sam did [] too.") categorize as ungrammatical many sentences that language users find acceptable (they "undergenerate"); semantic accounts overgenerate. We propose that a processing theory, together with a syntactic account, does a better job of describing and explaining the data on verb phrase-ellipsis. Five acceptability judgment experiments supported a "VP recycling hypothesis," which claims that when a syntactically matching antecedent is not available, the listener/reader creates one using the materials at hand. Experiments I and 2 used verb phrase ellipsis sentences with antecedents ranging from perfect (a verb phrase in matrix verb phrase position) to impossible (a verb phrase containing only a deverbal word). Experiments 3 and 4 contrasted antecedents in verbal vs nominal gerund subjects. Experiment 5 explored the possibility that speakers are particularly likely to go beyond the grammar and produce elided constituents without perfect matching antecedents when the antecedent needed is less marked than the antecedent actually produced. This experiment contrasted active (unmarked) and passive antecedents to show that readers seem to honor such a tendency. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.