Gelormini-Lezama Carlos, Almor Amit
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Pacheco de Melo 1860 (1126), Buenos Aires, Argentina,
J Psycholinguist Res. 2014 Jun;43(3):299-313. doi: 10.1007/s10936-013-9254-6.
In two self-paced, sentence-by-sentence reading experiments, we examined the difference in the processing of Spanish discourses containing overt and null pronouns. In both experiments, antecedents appeared in a single phrase (John met Mary) or in a conjoined phrase (John and Mary met). In Experiment 1, we compared reading times of sentences containing singular overt and null pronouns referring to the first or to the second mentioned antecedent. Overt pronouns caused a processing delay relative to null pronouns when they referred to the first antecedent in single but not in conjoined phrases. In Experiment 2, we compared reading times of sentences containing overt and null pronouns referring to singular or plural entities. Plural null pronouns were read faster than their singular counterparts in conjoined conditions. Plural overt pronouns were read more slowly than their null counterparts both in single and conjoined conditions. We explain our findings in a 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，我们研究了包含显性和隐性代词的西班牙语语篇在处理过程中的差异。在两项实验中，先行词均出现在单个短语（约翰遇见了玛丽）或并列短语（约翰和玛丽相遇了）中。在实验1中，我们比较了包含指代第一个或第二个提到的先行词的单数显性和隐性代词的句子的阅读时间。当显性代词指代单个短语而非并列短语中的第一个先行词时，相对于隐性代词会导致处理延迟。在实验2中，我们比较了包含指代单数或复数实体的显性和隐性代词的句子的阅读时间。在并列条件下，复数隐性代词的阅读速度比其单数对应词更快。在单个和并列条件下，复数显性代词的阅读速度均比其隐性对应词更慢。我们根据信息负荷假说，在一个基于处理成本和语篇功能之间平衡概念的框架内解释我们的研究结果。
