ABSTRACT

We examined the time-course of lexical activation, deactivation, and the syntactic operation of dependency linking during the online processing of object-relative sentence constructions using eye-tracking-while-listening. We explored how manipulating temporal aspects of the language input affects the tight lexical and syntactic temporal constraints found in sentence processing. The three temporal manipulations were (1) increasing the duration of the direct object noun, (2) adding the disfluency uh after the noun, and (3) replacing the disfluency with a silent pause. The findings from this experiment revealed that the disfluent and silence temporal manipulations enhanced the processing of subject and object noun phrases by modulating activation and deactivation. The manipulations also changed the time-course of dependency linking (increased reactivation of the direct object). The modulated activation dynamics of these lexical items are thought to play a role in mitigating interference and suggest that deactivation plays a beneficial role in complex sentence processing.

 抽象的

我们使用听中眼动跟踪在线处理对象相关句子结构期间检查了词汇激活、停用和依存链接的句法操作的时间过程。我们探讨了操纵语言输入的时间方面如何影响句子处理中严格的词汇和句法时间约束。三种时间操作是（1）增加直接宾语名词的持续时间，（2）在名词后面添加不流利的uh ，以及（3）用无声停顿替换不流利的。该实验的结果表明，分流和沉默时间操作通过调节激活和失活增强了主语和宾语名词短语的处理。这些操作还改变了依赖链接的时间进程（增加了直接对象的重新激活）。这些词汇项的调节激活动态被认为在减轻干扰方面发挥了作用，并表明失活在复杂句子处理中发挥着有益的作用。