The Influence of Focus Operators on Syntactic Processing of Short Relative Clause Sentences
The Influence of Focus Operators on Syntactic Processing of Short Relative Clause Sentences
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DOI：
10.1080/713755827
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发表时间：
1999-08
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
K. Paterson;S. Liversedge;G. Underwood
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作者：
K. Paterson;S. Liversedge;G. Underwood
Ni、Crain 和 Shankweiler (1996) 提供的证据表明焦点运算符只能指导如何最初解析简化关系从句。在本文中，我们证明这不适用于以名词短语、动词、名词短语结构开头的关系从句句子。我们报告了一项眼动研究，其中受试者仅在有或没有焦点操作符的情况下阅读这种类型的简化和非简化句子。无论是否包含 only，缩减句子的关键区域中的首遍阅读时间都比未缩减句子的相同区域更长。此外，与阅读不包含焦点运算符的简化关系从句句子相比，读者在阅读包含焦点运算符的简化关系从句句子时，在花园路径后重新检查文本部分的时间更少。我们得出的结论是，受试者最初在句法上错误地分析了 with 和 without only 的简化关系从句，并且焦点运算符的包含促进了恢复过程，而不是指导初始解析。这些结果与参考理论不一致，破坏了Ni等人的结论。 （1996）。
Ni, Crain, and Shankweiler (1996) present evidence to suggest that the focus operator only can guide how reduced relative clause sentences are initially parsed. In this paper, we demonstrate that this does not hold for relative clause sentences that start with a noun-phrase, verb, noun-phrase construction. We report an eye movement study in which subjects read reduced and unreduced sentences of this type with and without the focus operator only. There were longer first-pass reading times in the critical region of reduced sentences than in the same region of unreduced sentences, regardless of the inclusion of only. Furthermore, readers spent less time re-inspecting portions of text after being garden pathed when reading reduced relative clause sentences that contained the focus operator than when reading reduced relative clause sentences that did not. We conclude that subjects initially syntactically misanalysed reduced relative clause sentences with and without only, and the inclusion of a focus operator facilitated recovery procedures rather than guiding initial parsing. These results are inconsistent with the referential theory and undermine the conclusions of Ni et al. (1996).