THE INTERACTION OF REFERENTIAL AMBIGUITY AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN THE PARSING OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
THE INTERACTION OF REFERENTIAL AMBIGUITY AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN THE PARSING OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
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DOI：
10.1006/jmla.1994.1013
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发表时间：
1994-04-01
影响因子：
4.3
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BRITT, MA
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作者：
BRITT, MA
本研究探讨的问题是，对结构上有歧义的句子(如他把书放在椅子上)的最初解释是纯粹基于句法原则，还是语义过程也会产生影响。在两个实验中，参照歧义(例如，书中是否有多个指称)和动词论元结构(例如，动词是作为可选论元还是强制性论元)在两个实验中被操纵，该实验使用了受试者步调的移动窗口技术。这些实验发现，解决歧义名词短语所指的需要与动词论元的强制性/可选性相互作用。语篇信息影响介词短语的初始句法分配，但只影响带可选目标论元的动词。对于带有强制性目标论元的动词，依恋决定与名词短语是否具有指代歧义无关。第三个实验发现，如果一个消解歧义的形容词紧跟在名词之前，介词短语最初并不被解释为修饰语，这清楚地暗示了指称歧义是影响介词短语解释的机制。这些结果支持语篇语义对介词短语句法分析的有限影响，并与语义对句法没有影响的模型和完全交互作用的模型不一致。(C)1994年学术出版社。
This research addresses the question of whether the initial interpretation of structurally ambiguous sentences (such as He dropped the book on the chair) is made purely on the basis of syntactic principles or whether semantic processes also exert an influence. Two factors, referential ambiguity (e.g., whether there is more than one referent for the book), and verb argument structure (e.g., whether the verb takes on the chair as an optional or obligatory argument) were manipulated in two experiments using a subject-paced moving-window technique. These experiments found that the need to resolve an ambiguous noun phrase referent interacted with the obligatory/optional nature of verb arguments. Discourse information affected initial syntactic assignment of the prepositional phrase, but only for verbs taking optional goal arguments. For verbs taking obligatory goal arguments, the attachment decision was independent of whether the noun phrase was referentially ambiguous. A third experiment found that prepositional phrases are not initially interpreted as modifiers if a disambiguating adjective immediately precedes the noun, clearly implicating referential ambiguity as the mechanism affecting the interpretation of the prepositional phrase. These results support a limited influence of discourse semantics on the parsing of prepositional phrases and are inconsistent with models that propose no influence of semantics on syntax and models that propose complete interaction. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.