Das Verstehen von Relativsätzen bei Sprachgesunden und Aphasikern

该项目研究了正常和失语语言理解过程中关系从句的加工。在理解无歧义和局部模糊关系分句时，处理复杂性是如何由句法和非句法因素的相互作用决定的，这是一个关键问题。从句法上看，关系代词作为动素与其迹的关系起着中心作用。在文献中，这种先行词-追踪关系的构型特性被认为可以解释在处理带有初始主语或初始宾语的关系子句时的差异。该项目将评估该假设的有效性。首先，要考虑一个附加的句法属性，即对象类型（宾格、格格或介词对象）。其次，该项目研究了德语语料库中几个语义-语用特性（animacy，代词与非代词NP，信息结构）以及不同关系从句类型的频率。所需的语料库数据将在项目中获得。不同的方法，如阅读时间测量，句子与图片匹配以及可接受性判断将被用于研究上述因素的相互作用。同时考虑了非歧义句的复杂性和局部歧义关系分句的句法偏好。通过对未受损和失语参与者进行紧密联系的实验，该项目提供了对理解关系从句所涉及的心理过程的差异化分析。

The project VER investigates the processing of relative clauses during normal as well as aphasic language comprehension. A crucial question is how processing complexity is determined by the interaction of syntactic and non-syntactic factors while understanding syntactically unambiguous and locally ambiguous relative clauses. Syntactically, the relation between the relative pronoun as a moved element and its trace plays a central role. In the literature, configurational properties of this antecedent-trace relation have been argued to account for differences in processing relative clauses with an initial subject or an initial object. The validity of this assumption will be assessed by the project. First, an additional syntactic property, namely the object type (accusative, dative or prepositional object), will be considered. Second, the project examines several semantic-pragmatic properties (animacy, pronominal versus non-pronominal NP, information structure) as well as the frequencies of different relative clause types in German corpora. The required corpus data will be obtained within the project.Different methods such as reading time measures, sentence-to-picture matching as well as acceptability judgments will be applied to investigate the interaction of the mentioned factors. Both the complexity of unambiguous sentences and syntactic preferences for locally ambiguous relative clauses are taken into account. By tightly interlocking experiments with unimpaired and aphasic participants, the project provides a differentiated analysis of the mental processes involved in comprehending relative clauses.