Does the Processing Advantage of Formulaic Language Persist in Its Nonadjacent Forms? Evidence from Eye Movements of Chinese Collocations.

IF 1.6 2区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI:10.1007/s10936-024-10040-5
Shang Jiang
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It has been well documented that formulaic language (such as collocations; e.g., provide information) enjoys a processing advantage over novel language (e.g., compare information). In natural language use, however, many formulaic sequences are often inserted with words intervening in between the individual constituents (e.g., provided information → provide some of the information). Whether or not the processing advantage persists in nonadjacent forms remains largely unknown. The present study thus sought to address this gap by recording the eye movements of Chinese native speakers when they were reading sentences embedded with formulaic sequences (high frequency collocations) versus novel phrases (low frequency controls), in their adjacent (e.g., 'resolve difficulties' vs. 'experience difficulties'), short-insertion (e.g., 'resolve these difficulties' vs. 'experience these difficulties'), and long-insertion forms (e.g., 'resolved so many difficulties' vs. 'experienced so many difficulties'). Results suggested that the processing advantage for formulaic language over novel language existed not only in their adjacent form, but also in their short-insertion form, albeit the magnitude of the processing advantage diminished with the increase of insertion length. The persistence of FL processing advantage is in line with usage-based approach to language learning, processing, and use.

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公式化语言的加工优势在非相邻形式中是否依然存在?汉语搭配的眼动证据。
有大量文件证明,公式化语言(如搭配;如提供信息)比新颖语言(如比较信息)更具处理优势。然而,在自然语言使用中,许多公式化的语序往往在单个成分之间插入词语(例如,提供信息 → 提供部分信息)。这种加工优势是否会在非相邻形式中持续存在,在很大程度上仍然是个未知数。因此,本研究试图通过记录中国母语人士在阅读包含公式序列(高频搭配)和新颖短语(低频对照)的句子时的眼动来填补这一空白,包括相邻形式(如 "解决困难 "与 "经历困难")、短插入形式(如 "解决这些困难 "与 "经历这些困难")和长插入形式(如 "解决了这么多困难 "与 "经历了这么多困难")。结果表明,与新颖语言相比,公式化语言的加工优势不仅存在于邻接形式中,也存在于短插入形式中,尽管加工优势的大小随着插入长度的增加而减小。FL加工优势的持续性与基于使用的语言学习、加工和使用方法是一致的。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research publishes carefully selected papers from the several disciplines engaged in psycholinguistic research, providing a single, recognized medium for communications among linguists, psychologists, biologists, sociologists, and others. The journal covers a broad range of approaches to the study of the communicative process, including: the social and anthropological bases of communication; development of speech and language; semantics (problems in linguistic meaning); and biological foundations. Papers dealing with the psychopathology of language and cognition, and the neuropsychology of language and cognition, are also included.
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