Effects
of Syntactic Structure of a Sentence in Word Naming
K. Fukuda |
A
naming paradigm was used to explore the effect of the syntactic structure
of a sentence fragment on recognition of a subsequent target word
when the syntactic context trials were mixed with the semantic context
trials. Target words (Japanese verbs) were visually presented 500
msec. (Experiment 1) or immediately (Experiment 2) after context
Japanese sentence fragments disappeared. In Experiment 1, the target
words following the syntactically congruous contexts were named faster
than those following syntactically incongruous contexts, even if
the target words semantically unrelated to the contexts. Semantically
context effects were not observed. In Experiment 2, both syntactic
and semantic context effects were marginally significant. The target
words in CR (syntactically congruous, semantically related) condition
were named faster than those in any other condition. The implications
of these results for the relationship between task structure and
sentence integration processing are discussed.
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