Gayraud Frédérique, Martinie Bruno
Laboratoire Dynamique du langage, ISH, CNRS, Universié Lyon2, 14, Avenue Berthelot, Lyon, 69363, France.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2008 Jan;37(1):21-31. doi: 10.1007/s10936-007-9057-8.
Our goal is to establish a link between the time needed to plan a sentence containing an embedded clause and the structure of this sentence. Contrary to a traditional monolithic conception of subordination, three types of embeddings were considered, depending on their degree of syntactic integration: subcategorized, modifier and pseudo-embedded clauses. We hypothesized that in the case of subcategorization, fewer pauses should occur between the matrix and the subordinate clause since the latter is required by the lexical properties of verbs. By contrast, pseudo-embedded clauses are the less integrated. Hence, they should exhibit planning characteristics similar to the ones of simple sentences, the matrix clause and the subordinate clauses being planned in two steps. Twenty texts produced by French speaking adults were recorded. Pauses were characterized according to their duration and position. Globally, both predictions were confirmed. We conclude that supposedly complex sentences are not necessarily difficult to process.
我们的目标是在规划一个包含嵌入式从句的句子所需的时间与该句子的结构之间建立联系。与传统的单一从属概念相反，根据句法整合程度，我们考虑了三种类型的嵌入：子分类嵌入、修饰嵌入和伪嵌入从句。我们假设，在子分类的情况下，主句和从句之间应该出现更少的停顿，因为从句是由动词的词汇属性所要求的。相比之下，伪嵌入从句的整合程度较低。因此，它们应该表现出与简单句子相似的规划特征，主句和从句分两步规划。记录了20名说法语成年人生成的文本。根据停顿的持续时间和位置对其进行了特征描述。总体而言，两个预测都得到了证实。我们得出结论，所谓的复杂句子不一定难以处理。
