Myachykov Andriy, Garrod Simon, Scheepers Christoph
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2012 Nov;141(3):304-15. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.09.006. Epub 2012 Oct 17.
Three experiments investigated how perceptual, structural, and lexical cues affect structural choices during English transitive sentence production. Participants described transitive events under combinations of visual cueing of attention (toward either agent or patient) and structural priming with and without semantic match between the notional verb in the prime and the target event. Speakers had a stronger preference for passive-voice sentences (1) when their attention was directed to the patient, (2) upon reading a passive-voice prime, and (3) when the verb in the prime matched the target event. The verb-match effect was the by-product of an interaction between visual cueing and verb match: the increase in the proportion of passive-voice responses with matching verbs was limited to the agent-cued condition. Persistence of visual cueing effects in the presence of both structural and lexical cues suggests a strong coupling between referent-directed visual attention and Subject assignment in a spoken sentence.
三项实验研究了感知、结构和词汇线索如何影响英语及物句生成过程中的结构选择。参与者在注意力的视觉提示（指向施事或受事）与结构启动的组合条件下描述及物事件，其中结构启动存在或不存在启动句中的实义动词与目标事件之间的语义匹配。说话者在以下情况下对被动语态句子有更强的偏好：（1）当他们的注意力指向受事时；（2）在阅读被动语态启动句后；（3）当启动句中的动词与目标事件匹配时。动词匹配效应是视觉提示和动词匹配之间相互作用的副产品：与匹配动词的被动语态反应比例的增加仅限于施事提示条件。在存在结构和词汇线索的情况下视觉提示效应的持续性表明，在口语句子中，指向指称对象的视觉注意力与主语分配之间存在强烈的耦合。
