Meaning through syntax: language comprehension and the reduced relative clause construction.
Meaning through syntax: language comprehension and the reduced relative clause construction.
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DOI：
10.1037/0033-295x.110.3.490
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发表时间：
2003-07
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
G. McKoon;R. Ratcliff
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作者：
G. McKoon;R. Ratcliff
本文对心理语言学中一个长期存在的问题提出了一种新的解释：为什么某些简化关系从句如此难以理解？本文认为，某些动词如race的意义与缩简关系从句的意义不相容，这种不相容性使得句子如The horse raced past the barn fell不可接受。为了支持他们的假设，作者表明，在自然产生的句子中，“The horse raced past the barn fell”类型的缩减亲属出现的概率几乎为零，而与其他动词的缩减亲属出现的概率约为1/20。作者还通过大量的心理语言学实验和语料库研究支持了这一假设。
A new explanation is proposed for a long standing question in psycholinguistics: Why are some reduced relative clauses so difficult to comprehend? It is proposed that the meanings of some verbs like race are incompatible with the meaning of the reduced relative clause and that this incompatibility makes sentences like The horse raced past the barn fell unacceptable. In support of their hypotheses, the authors show that reduced relatives of The horse raced past the barn fell type occur in naturally produced sentences with a near-zero probability, whereas reduced relatives with other verbs occur with a probability of about 1 in 20. The authors also support the hypotheses with a number of psycholinguistic experiments and corpus studies.