汉、英母语者空间感知倾向对句子在线加工的影响

The influence of Chinese and English native speakers' space perception on online sentence processing

本研究采用非语言任务及反应时任务,考察汉、英母语者空间感知倾向是否存在差异,及汉、英母语者空间感知倾向是否影响句子在线加工。受试为汉英母语者各80人。研究结果显示:1)汉语母语者具有明显的先背景后图形的空间感知倾向,英语母语者呈现出先图形后背景(32.25%)、先背景后图形(51.61%)及二者兼具(16.12%)三种空间感知倾向;2)不同的背景-图形启动次序影响汉、英母语者对句子的在线理解。

This study consists of two consecutive experiments which involved 80 native Chinese speakers and 80 native English speakers. The first experiment compared Chinese and English speakers' figure-ground space perceptive tendency(ground-before-figure/figure-before-ground) through a picture formation task. Results show Chinese speakers exhibit a dominating ground-before-figure perceptive tendency(100%), while English speakers show three different tendencies: ground-before-figure(51.61%); figure-beforeground(32.25%) and balanced pattern of these two(16.12%). The second experiment investigated whether the differences exhibited in the perceptive tendency in the first experiment affect the online processing of Chinese and English speakers' native language with a priming task. The results reveal a significant priming effect for both Chinese and English speakers, which indicates that the nonlinguistic priming affects the online sentence comprehension of the native linguistic target.