Koizumi Masatoshi, Imamura Satoshi
Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, 27-1 Kawauchi Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8576, Japan.
Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2017 Feb;46(1):247-260. doi: 10.1007/s10936-016-9433-3.
The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language. In the first experiment, we discovered the main effects of syntactic and information structures, as well as their interaction, showing that interaction of these two factors is not restricted to head-initial languages. The second experiment revealed that the interaction between syntactic structure and information structure occurs at the second NP (O of SOV and S of OSV), which, crucially, is a pre-head position, suggesting the incremental nature of the processing of both syntactic structure and information structure in head-final languages.
我们使用两个日语阅读理解实验，对句法结构和信息结构对句子处理负荷的影响进行了研究。日语是一种宾语在动词后的SOV型语言。在第一个实验中，我们发现了句法结构和信息结构的主效应及其相互作用，这表明这两个因素的相互作用并不局限于主语在动词前的语言。第二个实验表明，句法结构和信息结构之间的相互作用发生在第二个名词短语处（SOV中的宾语O和OSV中的主语S），至关重要的是，这是一个在中心语之前的位置，这表明在宾语在动词后的语言中，句法结构和信息结构的处理具有递增性。
