因果句法预测效应产生的眼动过程

The generation of causal syntactic prediction effect:an eye movement research

为了探究汉语句子阅读过程中因果关系句法预测的眼动过程,实验中控制了句法结构和中心语位置,并记录被试阅读时的眼动过程。结果发现:(1)有句法预测结构的句子阅读时间明显短于无句法预测结构的句子;(2)中心语在后的句子加工速度要慢于中心语在前的句子。结果表明:句法预测效应在预测记忆成本存在的情况下依然可以促进句子的加工,并且句法预测效应会随条件变化而改变。

In order to explore the eye movement process of causal syntactic prediction effect in Chinese sentence reading,the causal syntactic structure of each sentence and the position of the headword were manipulated and the eye movement data was recorded.The results are as following:1)the reading time of sentences that have causal syntactic prediction structure are significantly shorter than that without causal syntactic prediction structure.2)When the headword is at the end of a sentence,reading time was increased.These findings demonstrate that causal syntactic predictive effect can still promote the processing of sentences although there is still an online syntactic storage cost during sentence comprehension and the syntactic prediction effect changes with the condition.