Thematic roles assigned along the garden path linger
Thematic roles assigned along the garden path linger
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DOI：
10.1006/cogp.2001.0752
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发表时间：
2001-06-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Ferreira, F
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作者：
Christianson, K;Hollingworth, A;Ferreira, F
在处理花园小路句子的重新分析的文献中，例如当男人猎鹿跑到尽头时，通常假设人们要么完全修复他们最初不正确的句法表示，以产生句法结构与输入字符串完全一致的最终解释，要么句法分析失败。在一系列的五个实验中，我们探索了部分再分析发生的可能性。具体地说，我们考察了在构建部分正确的最终分析的同时，初始不正确分析的一部分仍然存在的条件。在实验1a和1b中，我们发现歧义区域的长度和最终解释的似是而非都影响了这些句子被完全重新分析的可能性。在实验2中，我们比较了花园小路句和非花园小路句，并比较了两种不同类型的理解题的成绩。在实验3a和3b中，我们使用一小类句法独特的动词来构建花园小路句子，以提供一致的证据，反对人们在面对句法困难的花园小路时使用某种类型的“一般推理”或语用推理的立场。这些实验的结果表明，对这类句子的重新分析并不总是完整的，因此理解者往往会对整个句子进行解释，其中部分最初的错误分析仍然存在。我们的结论是，语言处理的目标并不总是创建一种理想化的结构，而是创建一种“足够好的”表征，以满足理解者已经获得了适当的解释。(C)2001年学术出版社。
In the literature dealing with the reanalysis of garden path sentences such as While the man hunted the deer ran into the wends, it is generally assumed either that people completely repair their initial incorrect syntactic representations to yield a final interpretation whose syntactic structure is fully consistent with the input string or that the parse fails. In a series of five experiments, we explored the possibility that partial reanalyses take place. Specifically, we examined the conditions under which part of the initial incorrect analysis persists at the same time that part of the correct final analysis is constructed. In Experiments la and Ib, we found that both the length of the ambiguous region and the plausibility of the ultimate interpretation affected the likelihood that such sentences would be fully reanalyzed. In Experiment 2. we compared garden path sentences with non-garden path sentences and compared performance on two different types of comprehension questions. In Experiments 3a and 3b, we constructed garden path sentences using a small class of syntactically unique verbs to provide converging evidence against the position that people employ some sort of "general reasoning" or pragmatic inference when faced with syntactically difficult garden paths. The results from these experiments indicate that reanalysis of such sentences is not always complete, so that comprehenders often derive an interpretation for the full sentence in which part of the initial misanalysis persists. We conclude that the goal of language processing is not always to create an idealized structure, but rather to create a representation that is "good enough" to satisfy the comprehender that an appropriate interpretation has been obtained. (C) 2001 Academic Press.