花园路径句的句法加工及其对英语写作的影响

Syntactic Processing of Garden Path Sentences and Its Effects on English Writing

花园路径句是指在语言处理过程中能引起特殊的、暂时的局部歧义现象的句子,是心理语言学和认知语言学领域的一个概念。花园路径句的相关研究从心理语言学范畴辐射到句法学、语义学、语用学等不同领域。对花园路径句的句法分析,不仅有助于语言的理解,也有助于语言的产出,在产出语言时,要注意甄别花园路径句与语法错误句,花园路径句是没有句法错误却容易产生歧义的句子。

Garden path sentence,a concept in the domain of psychological linguistics and cognitive linguistics,refers to those that may cause a special and transient ambiguity during the language processing.The research on garden path sentence covers different fields,including psychological linguistics,syntax,semantics and pragmatics.The syntactic analysis on garden path sentence can facilitate not only language understanding,but also language producing,a process during which garden path sentence and sentence with grammatical errors should be identified since garden path sentence has no grammatical errors though it may lead to semantic misunderstanding.