标题： 中国英语学习者在理解英语句子时对句法处理的利用不足——来自改编的花园路径歧义实验的证据 显示英文标题

标题： Underutilization of Syntactic Processing by Chinese Learners of English in Comprehending English Sentences, Evidenced from Adapted Garden-Path Ambiguity Experiment

摘要： 许多研究表明，句子理解更多依赖于语义加工而非句法加工。 然而，以往的研究大多侧重于语义加工的偏好，关注的是语义视角。 相比之下，本研究从句法视角出发，强调了句法加工的利用不足。 基于传统的花园路径实验，该实验涉及局部歧义但整体无歧义的句子，本研究的实证实验创新性地设计了一种改编版本，采用语义有歧义但句法无歧义的句子，以实现其特定的研究目标。 这项涉及140名受试者的实验通过使用SPSS、Graph Pad Prism和Cursor进行描述性和推断性统计分析，表明中国英语学习者在理解英语句子时倾向于较少利用句法加工。 研究确定了两种解析利用不足的类型：部分不足和完全不足。 进一步探索发现，句法加工中的尝试与错误对两者均有贡献。 因此，本研究为开发一种新的解析方法奠定了基础，该方法旨在将句法加工全面整合到句子理解中，从而提高中国英语学习者对英语句子的理解水平。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Many studies have revealed that sentence comprehension relies more on semantic processing than on syntactic processing. However, previous studies have predominantly emphasized the preference for semantic processing, focusing on the semantic perspective. In contrast, this current study highlights the under-utilization of syntactic processing, from a syntactic perspective. Based on the traditional garden-path experiment, which involves locally ambiguous but globally unambiguous sentences, this study's empirical experiment innovatively crafted an adapted version featuring semantically ambiguous but syntactically unambiguous sentences to meet its specific research objective. This experiment, involving 140 subjects, demonstrates through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses using SPSS, Graph Pad Prism, and Cursor that Chinese learners of English tend to under-utilize syntactic processing when comprehending English sentences. The study identifies two types of parsing under-utilization: partial and complete. Further exploration reveals that trial and error in syntactic processing contributes to both. Consequently, this study lays a foundation for the development of a novel parsing method designed to fully integrate syntactic processing into sentence comprehension, thereby enhancing the level of English sentence comprehension for Chinese learners of English.