Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were slower reading and less accurate comprehending the overlap sentences compared to the non-overlapping controls, even though sentences were matched for plausibility and differed by only two words across overlap conditions. A comparison across experiments showed that the overlap effects were larger in the more difficult object relative than in subject relative sentences. The reading patterns showed that phonological representations affect not only memory for recently encountered sentences but also the developing sentence interpretation during on-line processing. Implications for theories of sentence processing and memory are discussed.

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读者阅读的押韵混淆了含义：在线句子理解中的语音效果

对书面语言理解的研究通常假设，除了单词识别过程之外，单词的语音特性对句子理解几乎没有影响。两个实验研究了这个假设。参与者默读关系从句，其中两对单词有或没有高度语音重叠。与非重叠对照相比，参与者阅读重叠句子的速度较慢，理解重叠句子的准确度较低，即使句子的合理性匹配并且在重叠条件下仅相差两个单词。跨实验的比较表明，与主语相关的句子相比，在更难的宾语中的重叠效应更大。阅读模式表明，语音表征不仅影响最近遇到的句子的记忆，而且影响在线处理过程中发展中的句子解释。讨论了对句子处理和记忆理论的影响。