McKoon G, Ratcliff R, Ward G
Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 1994 Sep;20(5):1219-28. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.20.5.1219.
On-line lexical decision has been used to test major theoretical hypotheses about language comprehension. Contrary to several current models, A. Sharkey and N. Sharkey (1992) found that a word in a sentence did not give facilitation to an immediately following, highly associated test item. In this article it is shown that such facilitation can be obtained. Other theories have proposed that syntactic processes supply antecedents for implicit anaphors. In using a test item that was an associate of the antecedent of the anaphor, the authors were unable to replicate previous findings of facilitation at but not before the site of the anaphor. Across 9 experiments, obtaining facilitation depended on the choice of control condition. This dependency raises questions about previous on-line lexical decision results that have been used to support the immediacy of syntactic processing.
在线词汇判断已被用于检验有关语言理解的主要理论假设。与当前的几种模型相反，A. 沙基和N. 沙基（1992年）发现，句子中的一个单词并不会促进紧随其后的高度相关测试项目的反应。本文表明，可以获得这种促进作用。其他理论提出，句法过程为隐性回指提供先行词。在使用一个作为回指先行词关联项的测试项目时，作者无法复制先前在回指位置而非之前位置获得促进作用的研究结果。在9个实验中，获得促进作用取决于控制条件的选择。这种依赖性对先前用于支持句法处理即时性的在线词汇判断结果提出了质疑。
