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Processing elided verb phrases with flawed antecedents: The recycling hypothesis
Journal of Memory and Language ( IF 4.3 ) Pub Date : 2006-08-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.02.005
Ana Arregui 1 , Charles Clifton , Lyn Frazier , Keir Moulton
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Traditional syntactic accounts of verb phrase ellipsis (e.g. "Jason laughed. Sam did [ ] too.") categorize as ungrammatical many sentences that language users find acceptable (they "undergenerate"); semantic accounts overgenerate. We propose that a processing theory, together with a syntactic account, does a better job of describing and explaining the data on verb phrase-ellipsis. Five acceptability judgment experiments supported a "VP recycling hypothesis," which claims that when a syntactically-matching antecedent is not available, the listener/reader creates one using the materials at hand. Experiments 1 and 2 used verb phrase ellipsis sentences with antecedents ranging from perfect (a verb phrase in matrix verb phrase position) to impossible (a verb phrase containing only a deverbal word). Experiments 3 and 4 contrasted antecedents in verbal versus nominal gerund subjects. Experiment 5 explored the possibility that speakers are particularly likely to go beyond the grammar and produce elided constituents without perfect matching antecedents when the antecedent needed is less marked than the antecedent actually produced. This experiment contrasted active (unmarked) and passive antecedents to show that readers seem to honor such a tendency.

中文翻译:

处理带有缺陷先行词的省略动词短语:回收假说

动词短语省略的传统句法说明(例如“Jason 笑了。Sam 也做了 [ ] 也是。”)将许多语言用户认为可以接受的句子归类为不合语法的(他们“不成熟”);语义帐户过度生成。我们建议处理理论与句法帐户一起,可以更好地描述和解​​释动词短语省略号的数据。五个可接受性判断实验支持“VP 循环假设”,该假设声称当没有句法匹配的前因时,听者/读者会使用手头的材料创建一个。实验 1 和 2 使用动词短语省略句,其先行词范围从完美(矩阵动词短语位置的动词短语)到不可能(仅包含动词短语的动词短语)。实验 3 和 4 对比了口头与名义动名词主题的前因。实验 5 探讨了当所需的先行词比实际产生的先行词不那么明显时,说话者特别有可能超越语法并产生没有完美匹配的先行词的省略成分的可能性。该实验对比了主动(未标记)和被动前因,以表明读者似乎尊重这种趋势。
更新日期:2006-08-01
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