García-Orza Javier, Gavilán José Manuel, Fraga Isabel, Ferré Pilar
Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
Cogn Process. 2017 Nov;18(4):543-553. doi: 10.1007/s10339-017-0811-z. Epub 2017 Apr 26.
Previous research has shown the impact of the emotional dimension of nouns (i.e., valence and arousal) on the completion of relative clauses (RC) that are preceded by a double antecedent [e.g.,: Someone shot the servant (the first noun phrase, NP1) of the actress (the second noun phrase, NP2) who was on the balcony] (Fraga et al. in Q J Exp Psychol 65:1740-1759, 2012). The present study explored for the first time the role of emotional valence, specifically emotional positive nouns, on RC disambiguation in a self-paced reading experiment. Two types of NP1-NP2 relationships were compared: emotional-neutral vs. neutral-emotional. Results showed NP1 preferences in the emotional-neutral condition, whereas no preferences were found in the neutral-emotional condition. We conclude that during reading, the emotional properties of nouns play a role in disambiguation preferences: RC attachment preferences can be neutralized when emotional factors are manipulated. The results are discussed within the framework of current models of sentence processing and with reference to the controversial differences between comprehension and production.
先前的研究已经表明名词的情感维度（即效价和唤醒度）对由双重先行词引导的关系从句（RC）的完成情况的影响[例如：有人开枪打死了在阳台上的女演员（第二个名词短语，NP2）的仆人（第一个名词短语，NP1）]（弗拉加等人，《实验心理学季刊》，2012年，第65卷，第1740 - 1759页）。本研究首次在一项自定步速阅读实验中探究了情感效价，特别是情感积极名词，在关系从句歧义消解中的作用。比较了两种类型的NP1 - NP2关系：情感中性对中性情感。结果显示在情感中性条件下存在NP1偏好，而在中性情感条件下未发现偏好。我们得出结论，在阅读过程中，名词的情感属性在歧义消解偏好中起作用：当情感因素被操控时，关系从句的依附偏好可以被中和。研究结果在当前句子处理模型的框架内进行了讨论，并参考了理解与产出之间存在争议的差异。
