摘要
本文采用眼动追踪技术,探讨英语阅读中的代词歧义消解机制。受试阅读含有第三人称属格代词的文本,其中,代词性别与先行句中的主语/宾语一致(无指代歧义)或不一致(有指代歧义),仪器记录受试阅读过程中的眼动轨迹。结果显示,有指代歧义代词的首次注视比率低于无指代歧义代词,说明在早期加工中代词歧义加速了阅读进程。而有指代歧义代词句的多个区域回视路径时间和总阅读时间长于无指代歧义代词句,表明歧义代词的消解增加了阅读晚期的加工难度。文章认为,过往对歧义消解研究中的竞争理论和再度分析理论都不能准确诠释代词歧义消解机制,指代歧义在不同时间阶段对代词加工的影响应进行区别探讨。
Ambiguity resolution has been intensively discussed in the field of psycholinguistic research,which includes different types of ambiguity such as lexical,syntactic,anaphoric ambiguities.In the current study,an eye-movement experiment was conducted to investigate how readers processed gender-ambiguous and-unambiguous pronouns.In early processing,first-pass fixation probabilities for unambiguous pronouns referring to the object in the preceding sentence were higher than for ambiguous pronouns.In later processing,after reading ambiguous pronouns,participants spent more time rereading the semantically informative parts of the text than after unambiguous pronouns.The results support a model of pronoun resolution which claims that early processing of pronouns is effortful when the processor has to disengage from a salient discourse entity that is incongruent in gender.Later processing is difficult when two possible interpretations of a pronoun compete for integration into the context.The findings provide evidence against the competition model and the reanalysis model of pronoun resolution.
作者
唐慧君
文旭
TANG Huijun;WEN Xu(College of International Studies,Southwest University,Chongqing 400715,China)
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第1期77-89,159,共14页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
基金
文旭主持的国家社科基金重大项目“认知语言学理论建设与汉语的认知研究”(15ZDB099)
唐慧君主持的四川省社科规划项目“英语母语者与二语习得者代词回指加工模式的眼动研究”(SC18WY002)
四川省应用心理学研究中心项目“英语中歧义现象消解的眼动机制及认知加工研究”(SCXL-182013)的阶段性成果.
