汉语焦点信息影响代词回指的行为和脑电研究

项目名称： 汉语焦点信息影响代词回指的行为和脑电研究

项目编号： No.31300929

项目类型： 青年科学基金项目

立项/批准年度： 2014

项目学科： 医药、卫生

项目作者： 徐晓东

作者单位： 南京师范大学

项目金额： 23万元

中文摘要： 目前虽然有关代词回指的研究有很多，但这些研究主要关注句法和语义因素如何影响回指加工，没有考察话语（语用）层面的信息结构，尤其是焦点结构，如何影响回指解读，没有考察不同类型的焦点信息是如何通过与句法角色、动词语义以及距离远近等因素的相互作用来决定回指解读。为此，本项目将在以往研究和项目组前期成果的基础之上，选择两种不同的焦点结构，即：自上而下的焦点（语言焦点）和自下而上的焦点（非语言焦点），并借助高时间分辨率的ERP技术，考察这两种不同类型的焦点信息对代词回指影响的异同，以及它们与句法、语义和距离等因素相互作用于回指加工的认知和神经机制，以此揭示在汉语句子理解中来自语言和非语言的信息是通过何种关系模式来影响回指加工和句子表征。具体关注的研究问题包括：1）自上而下的焦点信息如何影响回指加工；2）自下而上的焦点信息如何影响回指加工；3）焦点结构、句法角色和动词语义对回指加工的综合影响。

中文关键词： 语言理解；信息结构；代词回指；焦点结构；ERP

英文摘要： Up to now, although there have been a great number of studies conducted to deal with the problem of pronoun resolution, most of these studies were concerned with the question of how syntactic and semantic constraints influence the process of pronoun resolution. The question of how pronoun resolution is influenced by pragmatically-based constraints, such as information structure (especially focus structure) has not received as much attention in the literature. In particular, we know little about the processes of how focus structures interact with other linguistic information, such as grammatical role, verb semantic, and pronoun-antecedent distance, to determine the interpretation of pronoun. The purpose of this project is to gain insight into the question of how information structure, i.e. focus structures, influences the interpretation of the pronoun. To this end, we choose two different types of focus structures, that is, a top-down focus structure (linguistic focus) and a bottom-up focus structure (non-linguistic focus). More specifically, by measuring the latency and amplitude of Event related potential (ERP) components, we want to reveal the process of how these two different types of focus structures exert their influence on pronoun resolution, and during this process whether/how different focus information

英文关键词： Language comprehension；Information structure；Pronoun resolution；Focus structure；ERP