Constituent order and semantic parallelism in online comprehension: Eye-tracking evidence from German
Constituent order and semantic parallelism in online comprehension: Eye-tracking evidence from German
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DOI：
10.1080/17470210902790070
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Crocker, Matthew W.
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作者：
Knoeferle, Pia;Crocker, Matthew W.
当AND并列从句的第二个连词与第一个连词在句法或语义(有生命)结构上平行时，阅读时间比结构不同时更快(Frazier，Munn，Clifton，2000；Frazier，Taft，Roeper，Clifton，1984)。然而，尚不清楚的是平行效应的时间进程，它们的范围，以及它们对哪种语言信息敏感。前两个眼球跟踪实验的结果显示，在结构歧义消除过程中(实验1)，在具有明确大小写标记的语序的句子中(实验2)，以及在有标记和无标记的语序(实验1和实验2)中，整个实验板上都存在递增的语序平行。实验3的结果揭示了成分顺序和微妙的语义(名词短语相似)平行的影响。综上所述，我们的研究结果全面地解释了加工和并列从句的并行性，其中成分顺序和表征的语义方面都有助于递增的平行效应。我们在已有的关于并行性和启动的研究以及句子加工机制的背景下讨论了我们的发现。
Reading times for the second conjunct of and-coordinated clauses are faster when the second conjunct parallels the first conjunct in its syntactic or semantic (animacy) structure than when its structure differs (Frazier, Munn, Clifton, 2000; Frazier, Taft, Roeper, Clifton, 1984). What remains unclear, however, is the time course of parallelism effects, their scope, and the kinds of linguistic information to which they are sensitive. Findings from the first two eye-tracking experiments revealed incremental constituent order parallelism across the boardboth during structural disambiguation (Experiment 1) and in sentences with unambiguously case-marked constituent order (Experiment 2), as well as for both marked and unmarked constituent orders (Experiments 1 and 2). Findings from Experiment 3 revealed effects of both constituent order and subtle semantic (noun phrase similarity) parallelism. Together our findings provide evidence for an across-the-board account of parallelism for processing and-coordinated clauses, in which both constituent order and semantic aspects of representations contribute towards incremental parallelism effects. We discuss our findings in the context of existing findings on parallelism and priming, as well as mechanisms of sentence processing.