Lezama Carlos Gelormini, Almor Amit
University of South Carolina.
Lang Cogn Process. 2011 Apr;26(3):437-454. doi: 10.1080/01690965.2010.495234.
In two self-paced, sentence-by-sentence reading experiments we examined the difference in the processing of Spanish discourses with repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns in emphatic and non-emphatic contexts. In Experiment 1, repeated names and overt pronouns caused a processing delay when they referred to salient antecedents in non-emphatic contexts. In Experiment 2, both processing delays were eliminated when an emphatic cleft-structure was used. The processing delay caused by overt pronouns referring to salient antecedents in non-emphatic contexts in Spanish contrasts with previous findings in Chinese, where null and overt pronouns elicited similar reading times. We explain both our Spanish findings and the Chinese findings in a unified framework based on the notion of balance between processing cost and discourse function in line with the Informational Load Hypothesis.
在两项自定进度、逐句阅读的实验中，我们研究了在强调和非强调语境下，西班牙语语篇中使用重复姓名、显性代词和零代词时的加工差异。在实验1中，重复姓名和显性代词在非强调语境中指代显著先行词时会导致加工延迟。在实验2中，当使用强调性分裂结构时，这两种加工延迟都被消除了。西班牙语中非强调语境下指代显著先行词的显性代词所导致的加工延迟与之前中文研究的结果形成对比，在中文研究中，零代词和显性代词引发的阅读时间相似。我们基于信息负荷假说，在加工成本与语篇功能平衡的概念基础上，在一个统一的框架中解释了我们关于西班牙语的研究结果和中文的研究结果。
