汉语动词的隐含因果性对代词加工的影响

The Effect of the Implicit Causality of Chinese Verbs on Pronoun Resolution

本文用四个实验探讨了汉语句子理解中动词的隐含因果性特征对代词加工的影响。实验采用2×2被试内设计,方法为探测词法。结果表明,有些汉语动词的语义中存在着隐含因果性特征,它影响了主语和宾语的相对通达性。同时发现,汉语中的宾语引发动词的隐含因果性倾向比主语引发动词中更为明显。

Four experiments were performed to examine the effect of the implicit causality of Chinese verbs on pronoun resolution in sentence comprehension. Two-factor-within-subject designs and detection tasks were adopted. The results showed that there was the feature of implicit causality in some Chinese verbs, and it might affect the relative accessibility of the subject and object of a sentence, and make the initiator relatively more accessible than the reactor in a eomprehender＇ s discourse model. It was also found that the feature of the implicit causality of object-initiating verbs was more explicit than that of subject-initiating verbs.