Kennison Shelia M
Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, 215 North Murray Hall, Stillwater, OK 74078-3064, USA.
Cognition. 2005 Oct;97(3):269-94. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.005. Epub 2004 Dec 30.
The research investigated the time course of integrative semantic processing during sentence processing. Reading time was measured on sentences containing an NP composed of an adjective and a noun whose combined meaning was plausible or anomalous (Experiment 1) or was typical or atypical (Experiment 2). The noun in the NP was either plural or singular. Plural nouns were expected to be more rapidly integrated with a preceding adjective than singular nouns because plural nouns can be ruled out as the first noun in a noun compound more rapidly than singular nouns. The results confirmed this prediction, showing that the effects of semantic plausibility and typicality were observed immediately during the processing of plural nouns, but were observed at a delay following the processing of singular nouns. Implications for theories of sentence processing are discussed.
该研究调查了句子处理过程中整合语义加工的时间进程。对包含由形容词和名词组成的名词短语（NP）的句子进行阅读时间测量，该名词短语的组合意义要么合理要么异常（实验1），要么典型要么非典型（实验2）。NP中的名词要么是复数要么是单数。由于复数名词比单数名词能更快地被排除在名词复合词中的第一个名词之外，因此预期复数名词比单数名词能更快地与前面的形容词整合。结果证实了这一预测，表明在处理复数名词的过程中立即观察到语义合理性和典型性的影响，但在处理单数名词之后延迟观察到这些影响。文中讨论了对句子处理理论的启示。
