Metonymic verbs like start or enjoy often occur with artifact-denoting complements (e.g., The artist started the picture) although semantically they require event-denoting complements (e.g., The artist started painting the picture). In case of artifact-denoting objects, the complement is assumed to be type shifted (or coerced) into an event to conform to the verb's semantic restrictions. Psycholinguistic research has provided evidence for this kind of enriched composition: readers experience processing difficulty when faced with metonymic constructions compared to non-metonymic controls. However, slower reading times for metonymic constructions could also be due to competition between multiple interpretations that are being entertained in parallel whenever a metonymic verb is encountered. Using the visual-world paradigm, we devised an experiment which enabled us to determine the time course of metonymic interpretation in relation to non-metonymic controls. The experiment provided evidence in favor of a non-competitive, serial coercion process.

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连续强制的证据：使用视觉世界范式的时间进程分析

转喻动词如开始或享受经常与表示人工制品的补语一起出现（例如，艺术家开始画画），尽管在语义上它们需要表示事件的补语（例如，艺术家开始画画）。在表示人工制品的对象的情况下，补语被假定为类型转换（或强制）为事件以符合动词的语义限制。心理语言学研究为这种丰富的作文提供了证据：与非转喻控制相比，读者在面对转喻结构时会遇到处理困难。然而，转喻结构较慢的阅读时间也可能是由于在遇到转喻动词时并行进行的多种解释之间的竞争。使用视觉世界范式，我们设计了一个实验，使我们能够确定与非转喻控制相关的转喻解释的时间过程。该实验提供了支持非竞争性连续胁迫过程的证据。