Direct-access retrieval during sentence comprehension: Evidence from Sluicing.
Direct-access retrieval during sentence comprehension: Evidence from Sluicing.
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句子理解过程中的直接访问检索:来自 Sluicing 的证据。
DOI:
10.1016/j.jml.2010.12.006
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
McElree,Brian
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作者:
Martin,AndreaE;McElree,Brian
Language comprehension requires recovering meaning from linguistic form, even when the mapping between the two is indirect. A canonical example is ellipsis, the omission of information that is subsequently understood without being overtly pronounced. Comprehension of ellipsis requires retrieval of an antecedent from memory, without prior prediction, a property which enables the study of retrieval in situ (Martin & McElree, 2008, 2009). Sluicing, or inflectional-phrase ellipsis, in the presence of a conjunction, presents a test case where a competing antecedent position is syntactically licensed, in contrast with most cases of nonadjacent dependency, including verb–phrase ellipsis. We present speed–accuracy tradeoff and eye-movement data inconsistent with the hypothesis that retrieval is accomplished via a syntactically guided search, a particular variant of search not examined in past research. The observed timecourse profiles are consistent with the hypothesis that antecedents are retrieved via a cue-dependent direct-access mechanism susceptible to general memory variables.