摘要
本研究旨在通过事件相关电位(ERP)技术,考察主语优先是否等同于施事者优先或话题优先。实验以汉语简单句加工为例,通过操纵语境,使得句首论元(NP1)成为典型施事者(有生命)或非典型施事者(无生命),话题或非话题。实验发现,不管何种语境,都无法消除主语优先效应。该结果支持BornkesselSchlesewsky和Schlesewsky(2006,2009)提出的扩展的论元依存模型的预测,即主语优先实为语言加工机制默认"最简依存原则"的产物,出现在句子加工的初始阶段,不受生命性和话题语境的影响。因此,在既往研究的基础上,我们进一步揭示主语优先不应等同于施事者优先或话题优先。
An auditory ERP experiment was conducted to investigate whether Subject-first preference is equal to Ac- tor-first preference or Topic-first preference. The initial arguments （NPls） of simple sentences in Chinese were either animate or inanimate, and were either topicalized or not topicalized by the contexts. Our results revealed that the sub- ject-first preference was independent from animacy and topicality, which supports that it is a universal processing strategy derived from minimal dependencies, as proposed by Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky（2006, 2009） in the extended Argument Dependency Model. Our findings thus speak for the view that Subject-preference cannot be regarded as Actor-first preference or Topic-first preference but as a by-product of the processing system in minimi- zing dependencies.
出处
《外国语》
CSSCI
北大核心
2017年第3期43-51,共9页
Journal of Foreign Languages
基金
浙江省社科规划一般课题"生命性对二语学习的影响及外语教学启示:行为与神经机制研究"(16NDJC212YB)的阶段性成果
关键词
主语优先
语境
最简依存
句子加工
ERP
subject-first preference
context
minimal dependencies
sentence processing
ERP
