Wei Hang, Boland Julie E, Cai Zhenguang G, Yuan Fang, Wang Min
School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2019 Feb;45(2):349-359. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000584. Epub 2018 Apr 26.
We report 2 self-paced reading experiments investigating the longevity of structural priming effects in comprehending reduced relative clauses among adult Chinese-speaking learners of English. Experiment 1 showed that structural priming occurred both when prime and target sentences were immediately adjacent and when they were separated by 1 or 2 filler sentences of unrelated structures. Moreover, the magnitude of the priming effect held constant across different lag conditions. Experiment 2 replicated the persistent priming effect and ruled out the possibility that the effect was due to verb repetition priming. Taken together, the current results suggest that recent experience with a given structure can have relatively long-lived facilitation effect on the language-processing system in second-language learners. As such, structural priming may serve as a learning mechanism for second-language speakers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
我们报告了两项自定步速阅读实验，该实验研究了成年华语英语学习者在理解简化关系从句时结构启动效应的持续性。实验1表明，当启动句和目标句紧邻时，以及当它们被1个或2个结构不相关的填充句隔开时，都会出现结构启动效应。此外，启动效应的大小在不同的间隔条件下保持不变。实验2重复了持续的启动效应，并排除了该效应是由动词重复启动导致的可能性。综上所述，目前的结果表明，近期对特定结构的体验可以对第二语言学习者的语言处理系统产生相对持久的促进作用。因此，结构启动可能是第二语言使用者的一种学习机制。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》（c）2019美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
