Alario F-Xavier, Caramazza Alfonso
Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33, Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Cognition. 2002 Jan;82(3):179-223. doi: 10.1016/s0010-0277(01)00158-5.
In numerous languages determiner forms depend not only on semantic information but also on several other kinds of information, such as the grammatical gender of the controlling noun or the phonological properties of the context. In the present research we contrasted two possible accounts of determiner retrieval: one in which every type of required information is bundled into a unitized representation for determiner retrieval and one in which each type of information can individually activate determiner forms. These alternative hypotheses were investigated in three experiments in which native speakers of French named pictures with simple [determiner + noun] or complex [determiner + adjective + noun] noun phrases. In the experiments, the properties of the contextual cues that drive the retrieval of the determiner were manipulated - for example, we manipulated the number of determiner forms that are compatible with a given grammatical gender and the number of grammatical genders that a given determiner form can be used with. Neither hypothesis can fully account for the results of the three experiments. However, a hybrid hypothesis that combines the principal features of the two hypotheses provides a good account of the data.
在众多语言中，限定词的形式不仅取决于语义信息，还取决于其他几种信息，比如支配名词的语法性或上下文的语音属性。在本研究中，我们对比了两种关于限定词检索的可能解释：一种解释是，每种所需信息都被捆绑到一个统一的表征中用于限定词检索；另一种解释是，每种信息类型都能单独激活限定词形式。这两种替代性假设在三个实验中进行了研究，在实验中，以法语为母语的人用简单的[限定词+名词]或复杂的[限定词+形容词+名词]名词短语为图片命名。在实验中，我们操纵了驱动限定词检索的上下文线索的属性——例如，我们操纵了与给定语法性兼容的限定词形式的数量，以及给定限定词形式可与之搭配使用的语法性的数量。这两种假设都不能完全解释这三个实验的结果。然而，一种结合了这两种假设主要特征的混合假设能够很好地解释这些数据。
