College of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Hunan Provincial Research Center for Language and Cognition, Changsha, 410082, China.
Cogn Process. 2021 May;22(2):185-207. doi: 10.1007/s10339-020-01003-4. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
This article explores the domain generality of hierarchical representation between linguistic and mathematical cognition by adopting the structural priming paradigm in an eye-tracking reading experiment. The experiment investigated whether simple arithmetic equations with high (e.g., (7 + 2) × 3 + 1)- or low (e.g., 7 + 2 × 3 + 1)- attachment influence language users' interpretation of Chinese ambiguous structures (NP + He + NP + De + NP; Quantifier + NP + De + NP; NP + Kan/WangZhe + NP + AP). On the one hand, behavioral results showed that high-attachment primes led to more high-attachment interpretation, while low-attachment primes led to more low-attachment interpretation. On the other hand, the eye movement data indicated that structural priming was of great help to reduce dwell time on the ambiguous structure. There were structural priming effects from simple arithmetic to three different structures in Chinese, which provided new evidence on the cross-domain priming from simple arithmetic to language. Besides attachment priming effect at global level, online sentence integration at local level was found to be structure-dependent by some differences in eye movement measures. Our results have provided some evidence for the Representational Account.
本文通过在眼动阅读实验中采用结构启动范式，探讨了语言和数学认知之间的层次表示的领域泛化。该实验研究了具有高附着（例如，(7+2)×3+1）或低附着（例如，7+2×3+1）的简单算术方程是否会影响语言使用者对汉语歧义结构（NP+He+NP+De+NP；Quantifier+NP+De+NP；NP+Kan/WangZhe+NP+AP）的解释。一方面，行为结果表明，高附着启动词导致更多的高附着解释，而低附着启动词导致更多的低附着解释。另一方面，眼动数据表明，结构启动对减少对歧义结构的注视时间有很大帮助。简单算术对汉语中三种不同结构的跨域启动提供了新的证据。除了全局水平的附着启动效应外，还发现局部水平的在线句子整合受到一些眼动测量差异的影响，表现出结构依赖性。我们的结果为表象论提供了一些证据。
