Momma Shota, Slevc L Robert, Phillips Colin
Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland.
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2016 May;42(5):813-24. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000195. Epub 2015 Nov 16.
Many influential models of sentence production (e.g., Bock & Levelt, 1994; Kempen & Hoenkamp, 1987; Levelt, 1989) emphasize the central role of verbs in structural encoding, and thus predict that verbs should be selected early in sentence formulation, possibly even before the phonological encoding of the first constituent (Ferreira, 2000). However, the most direct experimental test of this hypothesis (Schriefers, Teruel, & Meinshausen, 1998) found no evidence for advance verb selection in verb-final (subject-verb and subject-object-verb) utterances in German. The current study, based on a multiword picture-word interference task (Meyer, 1996; Schriefers et al., 1998), demonstrates that in Japanese, a strongly verb-final language, verbs are indeed planned in advance, but selectively before object noun articulation and not before subject noun articulation. This contrasting pattern of advance verb selection may reconcile the motivation for advance verb selection in structural encoding while explaining the previous failures to demonstrate it. Potential mechanisms that might underlie this contrasting pattern of advance verb selection are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
许多有影响力的句子生成模型（如Bock和Levelt，1994；Kempen和Hoenkamp，1987；Levelt，1989）强调动词在结构编码中的核心作用，因此预测动词应在句子构建的早期被选择，甚至可能在第一个成分的语音编码之前（Ferreira，2000）。然而，对这一假设的最直接实验测试（Schriefers、Teruel和Meinshausen，1998）并未发现德语中动词后置（主语-动词和主语-宾语-动词）语句中存在提前选择动词的证据。本研究基于多词图片-单词干扰任务（Meyer，1996；Schriefers等人，1998），表明在日语这种动词后置性很强的语言中，动词确实是提前规划的，但只是在宾语名词发音之前有选择地提前规划，而不是在主语名词发音之前。这种提前动词选择的对比模式可能在解释结构编码中提前动词选择的动机的同时，也能解释之前未能证明这一点的原因。本文还讨论了可能导致这种提前动词选择对比模式的潜在机制。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
