This paper presents experimental evidence for the role of lexically specific representations in the processing of English be and get passive constructions. Using a self-paced reading task, processing of full and truncated be and get passives was compared on sentences containing verbs strongly associated with these constructions, as determined by supercluster analysis (see e.g., Myachykov et al. 2012). This study complements these corpus-based studies by providing evidence from an on-line processing task that tests whether native speakers are sensitive to the observed distributions. The results support a usage-based functional account of processing and interpreting English be and get passive constructions. Participants' performance was influenced by frequency and lexical specificity. The study also provides evidence of education-related differences in language attainment – the higher educated participants were significantly better at interpreting be and get full passive constructions than the lower educated participants.

本文提供了实验证据，证明了词汇特定表示在英语be and get被动处理中的作用。使用自定进度的阅读任务，在包含与这些构造强烈相关的动词的句子上比较了完全和截断的be and get被动语的处理，这是通过超集群分析确定的（例如，参见Myachykov等人，2012）。这项研究通过提供在线处理任务的证据来补充这些基于语料库的研究，这些任务可以测试母语者是否对观察到的分布敏感。结果支持基于使用情况的处理和解释英语be和get被动构造的功能描述。参加者的表现受到频率和词汇特殊性的影响。