Ivanova Iva, Branigan Holly P, McLean Janet F, Costa Albert, Pickering Martin J
Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Lang Cogn Neurosci. 2017;32(2):175-189. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1236976. Epub 2016 Oct 28.
We frequently experience and successfully process anomalous utterances. Here we examine whether people do this by 'correcting' syntactic anomalies to yield well-formed representations. In two structural priming experiments, participants' syntactic choices in picture description were influenced as strongly by previously comprehended anomalous (missing-verb) prime sentences as by well-formed prime sentences. Our results suggest that comprehenders can reconstruct the constituent structure of anomalous utterances - even when such utterances lack a major structural component such as the verb. These results also imply that structural alignment in dialogue is unaffected if one interlocutor produces anomalous utterances.
我们经常会遇到并成功处理异常话语。在此,我们研究人们是否通过“纠正”句法异常来生成符合语法的表征。在两项结构启动实验中,参与者在图片描述中的句法选择受到先前理解的异常(动词缺失)启动句的影响程度,与受到符合语法的启动句的影响程度一样强烈。我们的研究结果表明,理解者能够重构异常话语的成分结构——即使这些话语缺少诸如动词这样的主要结构成分。这些结果还意味着,如果一个对话者说出异常话语,对话中的结构对齐不会受到影响。