Grammatical aspect and mental simulation
Grammatical aspect and mental simulation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.bandl.2009.07.002
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Wheeler, Kathryn
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作者：
Bergen, Benjamin;Wheeler, Kathryn
当处理有关可感知场景和可执行动作的句子时，语言理解者会激活感知和运动系统来对这些事件进行心理模拟。但人们对于在语言处理过程中究竟是哪些语言元素激活特定模态系统知之甚少。虽然众所周知，实词（如名词和动词）会影响心理模拟的内容，但语法的作用却鲜为人知。我们通过两个实验研究语法标记在心理模拟中的作用，在这两个实验中，我们通过修改句子使用的语法方面来操纵句子的含义。使用动作-句子兼容性效应 (ACE) 方法 [Glenberg, A., Kaschak, M. (2002)。将语言扎根于行动。 Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 558-565]，我们表明，关于手部动作的渐进式句子有利于同一方向的手动动作，而除了方面之外在各方面都相同的完美句子则不然。这一发现对语言处理的更广泛的影响是，虽然内容词告诉理解者在心理上模拟什么以及在执行这些模拟时使用哪些大脑区域，但诸如方面之类的语法结构会调节这些模拟的执行方式。 (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
When processing sentences about perceptible scenes and performable actions, language understanders activate perceptual and motor systems to perform mental simulations of those events. But little is known about exactly what linguistic elements activate modality-specific systems during language processing. While it is known that content words, like nouns and verbs, influence the content of a mental simulation, the role of grammar is less well understood. We investigate the role of grammatical markers in mental simulation through two experiments in which we manipulate the meanings of sentences by modifying the grammatical aspect they use. Using the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) methodology [Glenberg, A., Kaschak, M. (2002). Grounding language in action. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 558-565], we show that progressive sentences about hand motion facilitate manual action in the same direction, while perfect sentences that are identical in every way except their aspect do not. The broader implication of this finding for language processing is that while content words tell understanders what to mentally simulate and what brain regions to use in performing these simulations, grammatical constructions such as aspect modulate how those simulations are performed. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.