abstractY-adjectives are English adjectives that end in an orthographic <y> and a /i/ sound, for example lazy. Deriving its hypotheses from previous corpus findings and construction-based principles to language study, the experiment here reported validates the benefit a comparative alternation account of y-adjectives will accrue from a consideration of more and -er constructions across disyllabic adjectives that are not y-ones (called the HANDSOME adjectives). Reading times related to the comparative constructions of morphologically complex and simple y-adjectives were collected before and after native speaker exposure to one of three treatments – a dialogue comprising multiple HANDSOME more constructions, a dialogue comprising multiple HANDSOME-er constructions, or a control condition. Processing of y-adjective more constructions was found eased with exposure to HANDSOME more constructions. This exposure moreover overrode an anticipated processing ease for simple y-adjective -er constructions, while an exposure to HANDSOME -er constructions overrode an anticipated processing ease for complex y-adjective more constructions. The findings support the value of a constructional approach to understanding y-adjective comparatives.

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y形容词的比较交替：自定进度阅读的见解

摘要是-形容词是英语形容词，以正字形 <y> 和 /i/ 音结尾，例如懒惰的. 从先前的语料库发现和基于结构的原则推导出其假设以进行语言研究，这里报告的实验验证了比较替代说明的好处是的- 形容词会从考虑更多的和 -呃双音节形容词的结构不是是的-ones（称为 HANDSOME 形容词）。与形态复杂和简单的比较结构有关的阅读时间是的- 在母语人士接触三种治疗方法之一之前和之后收集形容词——一个包含多个 HANDSOME 的对话更多的结构，一个包含多个 HANDSOME- 的对话呃结构或控制条件。处理是的-形容词更多的暴露于 HANDSOME 后，结构变得轻松更多的建筑。这种曝光还超越了预期的简单处理是的-形容词-呃建筑，同时接触到 HANDSOME -呃结构超越了复杂的预期处理便利性是的-形容词更多的建筑。研究结果支持构建方法理解的价值是的-形容词比较级。