A reaction time study of grammaticality judgments in children.
A reaction time study of grammaticality judgments in children.
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儿童语法判断的反应时间研究。
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10.1044/jshr.3606.1208
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1993
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Wulfeck,BB
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本文研究了两个年龄组的正常发育儿童的语法判断和决策时间，以确定何时做出句法分析决策以及语言知识如何影响句法分析。儿童对语法违规表现出很好的敏感性，尽管水平略低于大学年龄的学生（Wulfeck，Bates和Capasso，1991）。敏感性结果还显示，两组儿童更好地检测在句子中排列单词所造成的违规行为，而不是识别形态选择的错误，这一发现已在成人Broca失语症中观察到（Wulfeck & Bates，1991）。由于大学生表现天花板的敏感性，这两种类型的侵犯，本研究揭示了发展变化的敏感性，在小学期间的形态学的不同方面。虽然年龄较大的儿童处理侵犯更快的整体，这两组儿童表现出非常快速的信息整合过程中的句子处理。决策时间的结果还表明，对词序违规的更大敏感性似乎增强了儿童在句子中利用上下文的能力，从而导致更快的决策时间。
Grammaticality judgments and decision times for two age groups of normally developing children were studied to determinewhenparsing decisions are made andhowlinguistic knowledge affects parsing. Children showed very good sensitivity to grammatical violations, although at somewhat lower levels than those reported for college-age students (Wulfeck, Bates, & Capasso, 1991). Sensitivity results also revealed that both groups of children were better at detecting violations created by permuting words in a sentence than at recognizing errors of morphological selection—a finding that has been observed in adults with Broca’s aphasia (Wulfeck & Bates, 1991). Since college students show ceiling performance in their sensitivity to both types of violations, the present study reveals developmental changes in sensitivity to different aspects of morphology during the elementary school years. Although older children processed violations more quickly overall, both groups of children demonstrated very rapid integration of information during sentence processing. Decision time results also indicated that greater sensitivity to word order violations seemed to enhance childrens’ ability to take advantage of context across a sentence, resulting in faster decision times.