The study employed ERP technique to explore whether the affordance derivation can facilitate semantic access in comprehending Chinese puns. ERPs were measured while participants read the pun sentences containing dual meanings and made a judgement about the following probes and statements. The results showed that highly related probes in pun sentences elicited a smaller N400 and a larger LPC than moderately related probes in pun sentences. As for the comparison of sentence types, both highly and moderately related probes in pun sentences produce a smaller N400 and a larger LPC than those in control sentences. These results indicate that in the early stage of pun comprehension, semantic access to the literal meaning is easier through affordance derivation because of meaning dominance and frequency. In the late stage of integration, however, the intended meaning of puns can be facilitated and accessed through its privilege of affordance derivation activated by pun words in a pun context because of the priming context and its underlying intention. The study has discovered empirically that it is the affordance derivation, which connects the context and the dual meanings indicated by the pun words, that contributes to the different time courses and dynamic underlying neurocognitive mechanisms in comprehending puns in Chinese.

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负担派生推导理解双关语的语义访问

该研究采用ERP技术来探索可得性推导是否可以促进理解双关语的语义访问。在参与者阅读包含双重含义的双关语句子时，对ERP进行了测量，并对以下探究和陈述做出了判断。结果表明，与双关语中的中度相关探针相比，双关语中的高度相关探针引起较小的N400和更大的LPC。至于句子类型的比较，双关语句子中与高度相关和中度相关的探针都比对照句子中的探针产生较小的N400和较大的LPC。这些结果表明，在双关语理解的早期阶段，由于含义的主导地位和频率，通过提供能力推导更容易对字面意思进行语义访问。但是，在整合的后期，双关语的预期含义可以通过在双关语语境中由于双关语及其潜在意图而通过双关语词激活的提供能力衍生特权而得到促进和访问。该研究从经验上发现，是将承受力推导与双关语所指示的上下文和双重含义联系起来，有助于理解汉语双关语的不同时程和动态的潜在神经认知机制。