Resolution of quantifier scope ambiguities.
Resolution of quantifier scope ambiguities.
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解决量词范围歧义。
DOI：
10.1016/0010-0277(93)90042-t
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发表时间：
1993
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
MacDonald,MC
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作者：
Kurtzman,HS;MacDonald,MC
不同的处理原则已经被提出来管理解决句子中的量词辖域歧义，例如Every kid climbed in a tree。本文探讨了量化短语的结构原则，即量化短语的句法或语义位置。为了检验这些原则，三个语法结构的首选解释确定在一个任务中，参与者作出快速判断是否一个句子后的双重量化的句子是一个合理的话语延续的量化的句子。观察到的偏好不能用任何单一的结构原则来解释，而是指向几个原则的相互作用。与许多建议相反，根据短语的线性顺序分配范围的原则几乎没有或根本没有效果。原则之间的相互作用表明，对歧义的各种解释最初可以并行考虑，然后选择最符合原则的单一解释。这些结果进行了讨论，在其他层面的语言表示的歧义解决理论。
Various processing principles have been suggested to be governing the resolution of quantifier scope ambiguities in sentences such asEvery kid climbed in a tree. This paper investigates structural principles, that is, those which refer to the syntactic or semantic positions of the quantified phrases. To test these principles, the preferred interpretations for three grammatical constructions were determined in a task in which participants made speeded judgments of whether a sentence following a doubly quantified sentence was a reasonable discourse continuation of the quantified sentence. The observed preferences cannot be explained by any single structural principle, but point instead to the interaction of several principles. Contrary to many proposals, there is little or no effect of a principle that assigns scope according to the linear order of the phrases. The interaction of principles suggests that alternative interpretations of the ambiguity may be initially considered in parallel, followed by selection of the single interpretation that best satisfies the principles. These results are discussed in relation to theories of ambiguity resolution at other levels of linguistic representation.