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Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese (Hao et al., 2024)

Citation

Hao, H., Fuchs, Z., & Vasishth, S. (2024). Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese.

My thoughts

“那一颗红色的球”和“一场精彩的球”可以被视为汉语中的一种 Marking and Morphing 现象,具体体现在:

形容词选择作为 Morphing 的结果:

Summary

A significant area of psycholinguistic research has been dedicated to investigating the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of long-distance dependencies. This paper ask wehther classifier-specific cues guide the retrieval of their associated nouns. Whether nouns in a classifier language like Mandarin Chinese are encoded with classifier-related features. This paper found evidence for a predicted interference effect in retroactive configurations, but no interference in proactive configurations. Found nouns in Mandarin Chinese are indeed encoded with a classifier-specific feature, and lexical-specific cues can not only be derived from verbs, but also from classifiers. Classifier-noun compatibility is gradient rather than categorical. Found asymmetry between target match and target mismatch conditions, where they consistently found facilitatory interference in target mismatch conditions, but no inhibitory interference in target match conditions.

主要发现

量词可提供词汇特定线索:

回溯干扰(Retroactive interference)显著:

前摄干扰(Proactive interference)较弱:

干扰效应的不对称性:

A-Maze 方法的成功应用:

Introduction

Cue-based retrieval (Lewis and Vasishth (2005))

Cue-based retrieval suggests that the parser initiates a search for the relevant linguistic dependent at the retrieval site, such as the verb, based on a set of retrieval cues.

干扰类型:

举例:假设有正确的依赖关系是「名词1 - 分类词」,但「名词2」(干扰词)插入其中,句子的结构变成「名词1 - 名词2 - 分类词」。这种情况下,干扰词直接打断了依赖关系。

举例:假设正确的依赖关系是「名词1 - 分类词」,但「名词2」(干扰词)出现在「名词1」前面,句子的结构变成「名词2 - 名词1 - 分类词」。这种情况下,干扰词在依赖关系形成之前就出现了。

核心问题:

Illusions of grammaticality

Facilitatory interference(促进性干扰):

Verb-specific cues and retrieval interference

Feature percolation

核心概念拆解

Morphosyntactic features(形态句法特征):

形态句法特征的传播是句法一致性的重要机制。例如:

Marking and morphing (Bock et al., 2001; Eberhard et al., 2005)

Classifier-noun dependencies in Mandarin Chinese

Method

Hypothesis

Participants