Farrar W T
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 1998 Apr;24(2):648-63. doi: 10.1037//0096-1523.24.2.648.
Three experiments compared the qualitative pattern of participants' word-naming performance in a syntactic priming task with the qualitative pattern of performance generated by a recurrent network model. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that when participants had a 600-ms response deadline, the appropriateness of a syntactic prime affected their naming times for high-frequency words but not low-frequency words. However, Experiment 2 also demonstrated that participants made the most pronunciation errors when naming inconsistent low-frequency words (e.g., pint) that were preceded by an inappropriate prime. The results of Experiment 3 suggest that participants' naming times to both high- and low-frequency words are affected by syntactic primes when there is no response deadline. The implication of these findings for the study of syntactic priming in English and other languages is discussed.
三项实验将参与者在句法启动任务中的单词命名表现的定性模式与循环网络模型生成的表现的定性模式进行了比较。实验1和实验2表明，当参与者有600毫秒的反应截止时间时，句法启动的适当性会影响他们对高频词的命名时间，但不会影响低频词。然而，实验2还表明，参与者在命名由不适当启动词前置的不一致低频词（如pint）时，发音错误最多。实验3的结果表明，在没有反应截止时间的情况下，句法启动会影响参与者对高频词和低频词的命名时间。本文讨论了这些发现对英语及其他语言中句法启动研究的意义。
