对应频率和翻译方向对翻译歧义词加工的影响

Effects of Corresponding Frequency and Translation Direction on the Processing of Translation⁃Ambiguous Words

本文从不同翻译歧义词之间和同一翻译歧义词内部对应频率(英语词对应汉语词以及汉语词对应英语词的频率)差异对比的角度出发,在英汉双语平行语料库中获取翻译歧义词对应频率的统计数据,并通过两个掩蔽启动范式下的词汇判断任务,以反应时为指标,探讨了对应频率及翻译方向对非平衡汉英双语者翻译歧义词加工的影响,并考察了二者的交互效应。研究发现:1)对应频率越高的词,加工反应时越短;2)非平衡汉英双语者能够更快地加工在L2-L1方向的翻译歧义词;3)二者交互效应显著,但两个实验中交互模式存在一定的差异,实验1不同翻译歧义词之间翻译方向对对应频率的影响,体现在L2-L1方向,而实验2同一翻译歧义词内部这种影响在两个翻译方向均有体现。

The present study investigates the effect of corresponding frequency(i.e.,the respective usage frequency of multiple Chinese/English words corresponding to an English/Chinese word),translation direction,and their interaction on unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals'processing of translation-ambiguous words.A corpus-based calculation is conducted to obtain the corresponding frequencies of the translation-ambiguous words.Specifically,the frequencies of correspondence between different words and their most frequent translation equivalents as well as the correspondence between one word and its various translation equivalents.This is used in two masked priming lexical decision experiments with reaction times as the index.The results show that:(1)translationambiguous words with higher corresponding frequencies are more rapidly processed;(2)translationambiguous words in the L2-L1 translation direction are processed faster;and(3)corresponding frequency and translation direction interact in different ways in the two experiments.The findings display that the influence of translation direction on the corresponding frequency is revealed merely in the L2-L1 direction in Experiment 1,whereas in both directions in Experiment 2.