Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, P-217 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada.
Mem Cognit. 2011 Nov;39(8):1472-86. doi: 10.3758/s13421-011-0112-1.
Gagné and Spalding (Brain and Language, 90, 478-486, 2004, Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 20-35, 2009) have shown that the difficulty of interpreting an established compound (e.g., snowball) can be influenced by recent exposure to a compound with the same modifier and that this influence depends on the relation linking the constituents of the compound. For example, snowball (a ball made of snow) was processed more quickly following snowfort (a fort made of snow; same relation) than following snowshovel (a shovel for snow; different relation). In three experiments, we investigated the basis of this relation-priming effect. The results indicated that the relation-priming effect in established compounds is due to slower processing in the different-relation condition rather than to faster processing in the same-relation condition. These results pose a challenge for most models of compound-word processing.
甘涅和斯波尔丁(《大脑与语言》,90,478-486,2004;《记忆与语言》,60,20-35,2009)已经表明,解释一个已有的复合词(如 snowball)的难度可以受到最近接触具有相同修饰语的复合词的影响,并且这种影响取决于连接复合词成分的关系。例如,在看到 snowball(由雪制成的球)之后,处理 snowfort(由雪制成的堡垒;相同关系)比处理 snowshovel(用于铲雪的铲子;不同关系)更快。在三个实验中,我们研究了这种关系启动效应的基础。结果表明,已建立的复合词中的关系启动效应是由于在不同关系条件下的处理速度较慢,而不是在相同关系条件下的处理速度较快。这些结果对大多数复合词处理模型提出了挑战。