An investigation into the lexical boost with nonhead nouns
An investigation into the lexical boost with nonhead nouns
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对非中心名词词汇提升的调查
DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2019.104031
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发表时间：
2019
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4.3
通讯作者：
Carminati M
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作者：
Carminati M
在五个结构启动实验中，我们考察了词汇促进效应在双及物句产生中的作用。尽管Pickering和Branigan(1998)的剩余激活模型表明，只有在双及物介词宾语(PO)/双宾语(DO)结构中重复句法许可中心才能产生词汇促进，但Schepers，Raffray和Myachykov(2017)最近发现，词汇促进也发生在非句法中心的名词重复时。我们操纵了PO/DO结构中主语的重复(实验1-3)和动词短语(VP)的内部论元(即主位或接受者，实验4-5)。在实验2中，动词也在主语和目标之间重复，而在其他实验中则不重复。使用了三种不同的任务来引出目标：通过口头完成句子片段的图画描述(实验1-2和4)，口头完成没有视觉语境的句子片段(实验3)，以及口头产生句子(实验5)。启动在所有实验中都有发生，当动词重复时(实验2)比不重复时(实验1)更强。然而，没有一个实验表明，当被试或其中一个VP内部论元重复时，启动作用更强。这些发现支持这样一种观点，即结构信息与句法中心语(即动词)有关，而与非中心语如主语名词和VP内部论元无关(Pickering&Branigan，1998)。
In five structural priming experiments, we investigated lexical boost effects in the production of ditransitive sentences. Although the residual activation model of Pickering and Branigan (1998) suggests that a lexical boost should only occur with the repetition of a syntactic licensing head in ditransitive prepositional object (PO)/double object (DO) structures, Scheepers, Raffray, and Myachykov (2017) recently found that it also occurs with the repetition of nouns that are not syntactic heads. We manipulated the repetition of the subject (Experiments 1–3), and the verb phrase (VP) internal arguments (i.e., either theme or recipient, Experiments 4–5) in PO/DO structures. In Experiment 2, the verb was also repeated between prime and target, while in the other experiments it was not. Three different tasks for eliciting the target were employed: picture description via the oral completion of a sentence fragment (Experiments 1–2, and 4), oral completion of a sentence fragment with no visual context (Experiment 3), and oral production of a sentence from a given array of words and no visual context (Experiment 5). Priming occurred in all experiments and was stronger when the verb was repeated (Experiment 2) than when it was not (Experiment 1). However, none of the experiments showed evidence that priming was stronger when either the subject or one of the VP-internal arguments was repeated. These findings support the view that structural information is associated with syntactic heads (i.e., the verb), but not with nonheads such as the subject noun and the VP-internal arguments (Pickering & Branigan, 1998).