句子产生中的句法启动

Syntactic Priming in Sentence Production

句子产生中的句法启动是指个体产生一个句子时,倾向于重复使用刚刚加工过的句法结构。研究发现:(1)句法启动不能简单用词汇、题元或韵律等因素来解释;(2)启动句和目标句动词、题元角色数目以及顺序是否一致,影响句法启动;(3)层级结构和线性结构具有心理现实性;(4)存在说和写之间以及从理解到产生的跨通道句法启动。这些发现促使研究者提出了新的句子产生理论,如句法启动模型和动词句法表征模型。论文最后指出了进一步研究的方向。

Syntactic priming （SP） in sentence production refers to the tendency of speakers and writers to reuse syntactic structures that they have recently processed. The studies we reviewed in this article have demonstrated that, （a） SP can not be explained simply by lexical, thematic, or metrical similarity between prime and target; （b） The magnitudes of SP effects have been observed to be reduced if the prime and target contain different verb, different number of thematic roles, or different order of the roles; （c） both hierarchical and linear structures have mental reafities; （d） there is cross-modal syntactic priming both between speaking and writing and from comprehension to production. These findings have promoted development of new models of sentence production such as the syntactic priming model and the model of verb＇s syntactic representation. The directions of further studies were speculated in this article.