Abstract A controlled reading experiment reveals that stress-based linguistic rhythm impinges on syntactic ambiguity resolution in silent and oral reading. The results suggest that, at points of syntactic underspecification, the accruing prosodic representation may affect even the earliest stages of structure building, viz. the analysis of syntactic features of an ambiguous word. Such an effect remains inexplicable in the context of (psycho-)linguistic theories that assume a strictly unidirectional relationship between syntactic and phonological processes, the latter merely interpreting the conditions the syntactic component imposes on it. Here, a performance compatible grammar in the framework of Optimal Parsing is presented that is capable of capturing the reading data. The model integrates syntactic parsing and prosodification in reading and predicts that, at points of syntactic indetermination, weak prosodic constraints alone may guide syntactic structure assignment. This suggests a bidirectional relationship between syntax and phonology in grammar and processing while, at the same time, confirming a tight coupling of language production and comprehension.

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有节奏的解析

摘要一项受控阅读实验表明，基于压力的语言节奏会影响无声和口头阅读中句法歧义的解决。结果表明，在句法规范不足的点上，累积的韵律表示可能甚至会影响结构构建的最早阶段。歧义词的句法特征分析。这种影响在（心理）语言理论的上下文中仍然是无法解释的，这些理论假设句法和语音过程之间存在严格的单向关系，后者仅解释句法成分对其施加的条件。在此，提出了一种在最佳解析框架中的性能兼容语法，该语法能够捕获读取的数据。该模型在阅读中集成了句法解析和预言化，并预测在句法不确定性的点上，仅弱的韵律约束可以指导句法结构分配。这表明语法和处理中的语法和语音之间存在双向关系，同时也证实了语言产生和理解之间的紧密联系。