Syntactic priming in comprehension: The role of argument order and animacy
Syntactic priming in comprehension: The role of argument order and animacy
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DOI：
10.1037/a0012795
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Arai, Manabu
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作者：
Carminati, Maria Nella;van Gompel, Roger P. G.;Arai, Manabu
两个视觉世界眼动实验研究了理解过程中句法启动的性质--具体来说，是否在双及物介词宾语（PO）和双宾语（DO）结构中的印刷效应（例如，“The wizard will send the poison to the prince/the prince the poison”）是由于对目标句中动词（send）之后的结构属性的预期，或者是对第一个动词后名词的生命属性的预期。在目标动词开始后不久。受试者在DO启动后更多地（相对于主题）注视受试者，表明启动结构影响受试者对目标场景的注视。重要的是，这种启动效应是相同的，无论是否动词后名词在启动句做（“君主将送画给总统”）或没有（“君主将派使者给总统”）不同的生命性，这表明PO/DO启动的理解发生，因为结构特性，而不是生命特征，被启动时，人们处理的双及物目标动词。
Two visual-world eye-movement experiments investigated the nature of syntactic priming during comprehension-specifically, whether the printing effects in ditransitive prepositional object (PO) and double object (DO) structures (e.g., "The wizard will send the poison to the prince/the prince the poison") are due to anticipation of structural properties following the verb (send) in the target sentence or to anticipation of animacy properties of the first postverbal noun. Shortly following the target verb onset. listeners looked at the recipient more (relative to the theme) following DO than PO primes, indicating that the structure of the prime affected listeners' eye gazes on the target scene. Crucially, this priming effect was the same irrespective of whether the postverbal nouns in the prime sentences did ("The monarch will send the painting to the president") or did not ("The monarch will send the envoy to the president") differ in animacy, suggesting that PO/DO priming in comprehension occurs because structural properties, rather than animacy features, are being primed when people process the ditransitive target verb.