Suzuki Takaaki
Department of Foreign Languages, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo-Motoyama, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8555, Japan.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2013 Apr;42(2):119-37. doi: 10.1007/s10936-012-9201-y.
This study investigates the on-line processing of scrambled sentences in Japanese by preschool children and adults using a combination of self-paced listening and speeded picture selection tasks. The effects of a filler-gap dependency, reversibility, and case markers were examined. The results show that both children and adults had difficulty in comprehending scrambled sentences when they were provided as reversible sentences. The reversibility effect was significant for children, whereas the interaction of reversibility and a filler-gap dependency was significant for adults. However, this does not indicate that children's parsing is fundamentally different from that of adults. For those children who processed the nominative and accusative case markers equally fast, the reactivation of the dislocated constituent was observed in the gap position. These results suggest that children's processing is basically the same as adults' in that their sentence processing is incremental and they parse a gap to form a filler-gap dependency.
本研究通过自定步速听力和快速图片选择任务相结合的方式，调查了学龄前儿童和成年人对日语乱序句子的在线处理情况。研究考察了填充语-空位依存关系、可逆性和格标记的影响。结果表明，当乱序句子以可逆句形式呈现时，儿童和成年人在理解上都存在困难。可逆性效应在儿童中显著，而可逆性与填充语-空位依存关系的交互作用在成年人中显著。然而，这并不表明儿童的句法分析与成年人有根本差异。对于那些处理主格和宾格标记速度相同的儿童，在空位位置观察到了移位成分的重新激活。这些结果表明，儿童的处理过程与成年人基本相同，即他们的句子处理是递增式的，并且他们通过分析空位来形成填充语-空位依存关系。
