Temporal traits of sentence processing revealed by a psychometric paradigm

本研究考察了句子加工的时间特征。先前的研究表明，当短语呈现缓慢时，我们对花园小径句子的理解会受损。然后，我们用心理物理学的方法研究了影响我们对花园路径句理解的因素。结果表明，句法再分析加工在较长的时间内会降低我们的理解能力。对于句子加工的时间成本，研究表明，处理花园路径句子的速度约为非花园路径句子的三分之一。本文提出了一个句子加工的时间模型，认为加工和衰减函数决定了我们的成绩。

In this study, temporal traits of sentence processing were examined. Previous studies showed that our comprehension of garden-path sentences was impaired when phrases were presented slowly. Then, factors were examined that decline our understanding of garden-path sentences using a psychophysical method. It was suggested that syntactic reanalysis processing declined our comprehension in longer duration. For temporal costs of sentence processing, it was shown that the speed of processing garden-path sentences was about one third as large as that of non-garden-path sentences. A temporal model of sentence processing was presented that processing and decay function decide our performance.