Four experiments support the hypothesis that syntactically relevant information about verbs is encoded in the lexicon in semantic event templates. A verb's event template represents the participants in an event described by the verb and the relations among the participants. The experiments show that lexical decision times are longer for verbs with more complex templates than verbs with less complex templates and that, for both transitive and intransitive sentences, sentences containing verbs with more complex templates take longer to process. In contrast, sentence processing times did not depend on the probabilities with which the verbs appear in transitive versus intransitive constructions in a large corpus of naturally produced sentences.

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动词词法表示中的事件模板

四个实验支持关于动词的句法相关信息在语义事件模板的词典中编码的假设。动词的事件模板代表动词描述的事件中的参与者以及参与者之间的关系。实验表明，具有更复杂模板的动词的词汇决策时间比具有不太复杂模板的动词更长，并且对于及物句和不及物句，包含具有更复杂模板的动词的句子需要更长的时间来处理。相比之下，句子处理时间不取决于动词出现在自然产生的句子的大型语料库中的及物与不及物结构中的概率。