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摘要
在句法消歧中,反复接触不太受欢迎的句法分析可能会引起解析偏好的变化,从而使处理不太受欢迎的语法分析变得更容易,而处理首选语法分析变得困难,这被称为“句法适应”(Fine et al., 2013)。然而,先前的研究报告了不同的结果,促使本研究重新审视这一效应,使用普通话中的模糊片段V+N1+DE+N2,它与关系从句(RC)结构(主要解析)和补语从句(CC)结构(次要解析)兼容。为了研究句法解析的相对可能性是否影响句法适应,我们进行了两个自定节奏阅读实验。参与者阅读具有较强RC偏差(实验1)和较弱RC偏差(实验2)的模糊片段开头的句子,然后通过语义合理性操纵偏差,在CC分析中消除歧义。在这两个实验中,我们的结果都没有发现不受欢迎的解析对阅读时间的适应。我们也没有发现在暴露于不受欢迎的CC结构后解析首选RC结构的难度更大。然而,离线理解的准确性确实有所提高。两个实验的对比表明,通过语义似然性增加不喜欢的解析的可能性可以提高离线理解,但不能提高该解析的在线阅读时间,突出了句子理解过程中似然性信息在结构歧义消解和句法适应方面的独特作用。
EXPRESS: Plausibility leads to better comprehension but not syntactic adaptation: Evidence from structural disambiguation in Chinese.
In syntactic disambiguation, repeated exposure to less-preferred syntactic analyses may induce changes in parsing preferences, such that processing the less-preferred parses becomes easier while processing the preferred parses becomes difficult, known as "syntactic adaptation" (Fine et al., 2013). However, previous studies have reported mixed findings, prompting the present study to reexamine this effect, using the ambiguous fragment V+N1+DE+N2 in Mandarin Chinese, which is compatible with a Relative Clause (RC) structure (dominant parse) and a Complement Clause (CC) structure (secondary parse). To investigate whether the relative likelihood of syntactic parses affects syntactic adaptation, we conducted two self-paced reading experiments. Participants read sentences that started with ambiguous fragments with a stronger RC bias (Experiment 1) and a weaker RC bias (Experiment 2) and were later disambiguated as the CC analysis, with the bias manipulated through semantic plausibility. In both experiments, our results did not find adaptation on reading time for the dispreferred parse. We also did not find greater difficulty in parsing the preferred RC structure after exposure to the dispreferred CC structure. The offline comprehension accuracy, however, did show improvement. The comparison between the two experiments shows that increasing the likelihood of the dispreferred parse through semantic plausibility enhances the offline comprehension, but not the online reading time of this parse, highlighting the distinctive roles of plausibility information in structural ambiguity resolution and syntactic adaptation during sentence comprehension.
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