Université de Genève, Switzerland.
Université de Paris and CNRS, France.
Cognition. 2021 Aug;213:104483. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104483. Epub 2020 Oct 22.
This article first describes Jacques Mehler's initial efforts to make psycholinguistics and, more generally, the cognitive sciences better known during his first years in Paris. Two lines of research on sentence perception, that we conducted in collaboration with Jacques, are then presented to illustrate his focus. In the Seventies, sentence perception was a central topic in psycholinguistics, with contrasting proposals of syntactic autonomy and interactivity being confronted. A first series of experiments aimed at defining the role of syntax in lexical selection process as revealed by the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) of the words in a sentence. The second series, using the phoneme monitoring technique, examined the clause as a processing unit during the auditory perception of sentences. These results confirm the fundamental role played by syntax in language processing.
本文首先描述了雅克·梅勒（Jacques Mehler）最初在巴黎的几年里，为了让心理语言学乃至更广泛的认知科学更为人所熟知而付出的努力。然后介绍了我们与雅克合作开展的两项句子感知研究，以说明他的研究重点。在 70 年代，句子感知是心理语言学的一个核心课题，句法自主和互动的对比假设相互交锋。一系列的实验旨在通过句子中单词的快速系列视觉呈现（RSVP）来确定句法在词汇选择过程中的作用。第二个系列实验使用音素监测技术，考察了句子听觉感知过程中从句作为一个加工单元的作用。这些结果证实了句法在语言处理中所起的基本作用。
