Ahrens Kathleen
Graduate Institute of Linguistics & DFFL, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei, Taiwan 106.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2003 Sep;32(5):497-516. doi: 10.1023/a:1025452814385.
This paper explores the interaction between sentence level syntactic information and the semantic information that is carried with the verb during sentence comprehension. A cross-modal integration task was employed to examine whether the number of participant roles (thematic roles associated with the central meaning of the verb) causes an increase in processing load during integration of the verb into on-going sentence comprehension. The effect of preceding sentential structural information (varied with respect to the number of argument and/or adjunct NPs preceding the verb) was also manipulated. Independent of the structural information preceding the verb, verbs with two participant roles were integrated into the sentence faster than verbs with three participant roles. This finding suggests that participant roles are stored with the representation of the verb and made immediately available during integration and comprehension. In addition, the syntactic distinction between arguments and adjuncts is also shown to play an immediate role in parsing and integration of language on-line.
本文探讨了句子层面句法信息与动词在句子理解过程中所携带的语义信息之间的相互作用。采用了一种跨模态整合任务来检验参与者角色的数量（与动词核心意义相关的题元角色）在将动词整合到正在进行的句子理解过程中是否会导致处理负荷增加。还操纵了前面句子结构信息的影响（根据动词前的论元和/或附加名词短语的数量而变化）。与动词前的结构信息无关，具有两个参与者角色的动词比具有三个参与者角色的动词更快地整合到句子中。这一发现表明，参与者角色与动词的表征一起存储，并在整合和理解过程中立即可用。此外，论元和附加语之间的句法区别也被证明在语言的在线解析和整合中起着直接作用。
