This study examined the electrophysiological correlates of complement coercion. ERPs were measured as participants read and made acceptability judgments about plausible coerced sentences, plausible noncoerced sentences, and highly implausible animacy-violated sentences ("The journalist began/wrote/astonished the article before his coffee break"). Relative to noncoerced complement nouns, the coerced nouns evoked an N400 effect. This effect was not modulated by the number of possible activities implied by the coerced nouns (e.g., began reading the article; began writing the article) and did not differ either in magnitude or scalp distribution from the N400 effect evoked by the animacy-violated complement nouns. We suggest that the N400 modulation to both coerced and animacy-violated complement nouns reflected different types of mismatches between the semantic restrictions of the verb and the semantic properties of the incoming complement noun. This is consistent with models holding that a verb's semantic argument structure is represented and stored at a distinct level from its syntactic argument structure. Unlike the coerced complement noun, the animacy-violated nouns also evoked a robust P600 effect, which may have been triggered by the judgments of the highly implausible (syntactically determined) meanings of the animacy-violated propositions. No additional ERP effects were seen in the coerced sentences until the sentence-final word that, relative to sentence-final words in the noncoerced sentences, evoked a sustained anteriorly distributed positivity. We suggest that this effect reflected delayed attempts to retrieve the specific event(s) implied by coerced complement nouns.

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这项研究检查了补体胁迫的电生理相关性。当参与者阅读并对合理的胁迫句子,合理的非胁迫句子以及高度令人难以置信的违反动画的句子做出可接受性判断时,对erp进行了衡量 (“记者在喝咖啡休息前开始/写/惊讶了这篇文章”)。相对于非强制补语名词,强制名词引起N400效应。这种效果不受强制名词所暗示的可能活动的数量的调节 (例如,开始阅读文章; 开始撰写文章),并且在幅度或头皮分布上与动画引起的N400效果没有差异-违反补体名词。我们建议,对强制和违反动画的补语名词的N400调制反映了动词的语义限制与传入补语名词的语义属性之间的不同类型的不匹配。这与模型一致,该模型认为动词的语义参数结构在与句法参数结构不同的层次上表示和存储。与强制补语名词不同,违反动画的名词还引起了强大的P600效果,这可能是由违反动画的命题的高度不可信 (语法确定) 含义的判断触发的。在强迫句子中没有看到其他ERP效果,直到句子-最后一个单词相对于非强迫句子中的句子-最后一个单词引起了持续的前向分布的积极性。我们建议这种效果反映了延迟尝试检索强制补语所隐含的特定事件的尝试。

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