Effects of clausal structure on subject-verb agreement errors.
Effects of clausal structure on subject-verb agreement errors.
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分句结构对主谓一致错误的影响。
DOI：
10.1007/bf02143164
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发表时间：
1995
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Nicol,JL
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作者：
Nicol,JL
本文探讨了复杂主语的内部结构对主谓一致错误发生率的影响。本研究采用Bock &米勒（1991）的句子完成任务，在Vigliocco和Nicol（1995）发现中心名词和修饰语中的数量不匹配名词之间的句法距离对错误发生率有影响的基础上，进一步研究了中心名词和修饰语中的数量不匹配名词之间的句法距离对错误发生率的影响：距离越大，错误发生率越低。本文的研究考察了这种距离效应是否纯粹是句法上的;如果是这样，那么可以预期的是，下面的错误会更少：The owners of the house which charmed the realtor.而不是跟踪那个吸引房地产经纪人的房主，因为在后者中，不匹配在句法上更接近中心名词。结果表明，两者之间没有任何差异，这表明距离效应更可能是由于时间距离而不是句法距离本身。
This paper explores the effect of manipulating the internal structure of a complex subject on the incidence of subject-verb agreement errors. Using the sentence completion task (Bock & Miller, 1991), this study followed up on Vigliocco and Nicol's (1995) finding that the syntactic distance between a head noun and a number-mismatching noun contained within a modifier has an impact on error incidence: the greater the distance, the lower the error rate. The study presented in this paper investigated whether this distance effect is purely syntactic; if so, then it would be expected that there would be fewer errors followingThe owner of the house which charmed the realtor... than followingThe owner of the house who charmed the realtors..., since in the latter, the mismatch is syntactically nearer the head noun. Results show no hint of a difference between the two, suggesting that the distance effect is more likely due totemporal distancerather than syntactic distance per se.