Processing profile for quantifiers in verb phrase ellipsis: Evidence for grammatical economy
Processing profile for quantifiers in verb phrase ellipsis: Evidence for grammatical economy
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10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5210
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2022-05
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Wesley Orth;Masaya Yoshida
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作者：
Wesley Orth;Masaya Yoshida
量词提升没有留下明显的标记来指示发生了移动，这使得解析器识别何时发生提升的任务变得极其困难。除了这一挑战之外，来自解释和判断研究的证据表明，提出会导致处理困难。这两个方面加在一起，导致一些人认为人类句子处理器采用了一种策略，在这种策略中，避免构造凸起结构，通常称为处理范围经济。这与传统的语法范围经济概念形成了鲜明对比，在语法中，量词提升受到限制。在本文中，我们讨论了这两个理论的性质。我们得出的结论是，这两种方法对提高应该在网上进行的时间做出了不同的预测，其中处理范围经济预测句法分析器尽可能避免提高，语法范围经济预测句法分析程序有规律地提高，有时在这个过程中产生非语法结构。然后，我们提出了一个实验，考察了动词短语省略中的复杂范围结构，以观察在线观察到与量词提升相关的惩罚时。我们发现，惩罚出现在量词提升在语法范围经济下是不合乎语法的配置中，这表明语法分析器尝试在这些配置中使用量词提升。这一证据表明，句法分析者的行为符合语法范围经济的预测，而不是加工范围经济的预测。
Quantifier Raising leaves no overt marking to indicate movement has occurred, making the task of identifying when raising has occurred extremely difficult for the parser. Beyond this challenge, evidence from interpretation and judgement studies suggests that raising causes difficulty in processing. These two aspects taken together have led some to suggest that human sentence processor employs a strategy in which the construction of raised structures is avoided, commonly called processing scope economy. This contrasts to the traditional notion of grammatical scope economy, where Quantifier Raising is restricted in the grammar. In this paper we discuss the properties of these two theories. We conclude that the two approaches make different predictions about when raising should occur online, with processing scope economy predicting that the parser avoids raising whenever possible and grammatical scope economy predicting that the parser raises regularly and sometimes produces ungrammatical structures in the process. We then present an experiment which examines complex scope structures in verb phrase ellipsis to observe when penalties related to Quantifier Raising are observed online. We find that penalties appear in configurations where Quantifier Raising would be ungrammatical under grammatical scope economy, suggesting the parser attempts Quantifier Raising in these configurations. This evidence indicates that the parser’s behavior matches the predictions of grammatical scope economy rather than those of processing scope economy.