Investigating the interplay between morphosyntax and event comprehension from the perspective of intersecting object histories.

IF 2.2 2区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY
Yanina Prystauka, Emma Wing, Gerry T M Altmann
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Abstract

In a series of sentence-picture verification studies we contrasted, for example, "… choose the balloon with "… inflate the balloon" and "… the inflated balloon" to examine the degree to which different representational components of event representation (specifically, the different object states entailed by the inflating event; minimally, the balloon in its uninflated and inflated states) are jointly activated after state-change verbs and past participles derived from them. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that the initial and end states are both activated after state-change verbs, but that the initial state is considerably less accessible after participles. Experiment 3 showed that intensifier adverbs (e.g., completely) before both state-change verbs and participles further modulate the accessibility of the initial state. And in Experiment 4, we ruled out the possibility that the initial state is accessible only because of the semantic overlap. We conclude that although state-change verbs activate representations of both the initial and end states of their event participants, their accessibility is graded, modulated by the morphosyntactic devices used to describe the event. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

从交叉对象历史的角度研究形态句法与事件理解之间的相互作用。
在一系列句子-图片验证研究中,我们将"......选择气球 "与"......给气球充气 "和"......充气的气球 "进行了对比,以考察事件表征的不同表征成分(具体来说,充气事件所包含的不同客体状态;最低限度,未充气状态和充气状态下的气球)在状态变化动词和由其派生的过去分词之后被共同激活的程度。实验 1 和 2 表明,在状态变化动词之后,初始状态和结束状态都被激活,但在分词之后,初始状态的可及性大大降低。实验 3 表明,状态变化动词和分词前的强化副词(如完全)会进一步调节初始状态的可及性。而在实验 4 中,我们排除了初始状态只是因为语义重叠才可以进入的可能性。我们的结论是,尽管状态变化动词激活了事件参与者的初始状态和结束状态的表征,但它们的可及性是分级的,受用于描述事件的形态句法手段的调节。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)。
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CiteScore
4.30
自引率
3.80%
发文量
163
审稿时长
4-8 weeks
期刊介绍: The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition publishes studies on perception, control of action, perceptual aspects of language processing, and related cognitive processes.
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