浮现中的熟语性:“程度副词+名词”构式的ERP研究——熟语表征和理解的认知研究之十  

The Emerging Idiomaticity: An ERP Case Study on the "Degree Adverb+Noun" Construction

作　　者：蔡辉[1] 孙莹[2] 张辉[2] 

机构地区：[1]中央财经大学外国语学院,北京100081 [2]解放军国际关系学院学报编辑部,江苏南京201139

出　　处：《解放军外国语学院学报》2013年第1期1-7,127,共7页Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目"汉语熟语理解的神经机制研究"(06BYY019);国家自然科学基金项目"基于事件相关电位的汉语惯用语结构的认知研究"(30740040);国家社会科学基金重大招标项目"神经语言学研究及学科建设研究"(10&ZD126)

摘　　要："程度副词+名词"构式是浮现中的一种熟语性构式。本文用事件相关(脑)电位(ERP)技术对这一构式的在线加工进行了个案研究。实验语料为4类"程度副词+X"短语构式,X分别代表形容词、兼类词、可搭配名词和不可搭配名词。实验结果表明:N400振幅在4类构式上呈现从字面表达到错误表达依次递增的梯度分布,两类转喻表达位于中间,没有差异。我们认为,N400在"程度副词+名词"构式和"程度副词+兼类词"构式上的梯度振幅可归因于转喻度的不同,指出"范畴指代属性"转喻度的差异是几种"程度副词+名词"构式接受度不同的主要原因。The emerging idiomaticity is a linguistic phenomenon in which the construction is not fixed enough to be an idiom but still in the process of idiomatization.The'Degree Adverb+Noun'construction is a case in point.This paper,employing the ERP technique,conducted a case study of this construction.In the experiment,four types of'Degree Adverb+X'constructions were examined,with X representing adjectives,class-ambiguous words,collocationally acceptable nouns and collocationally unacceptable nouns respectively.The results exhibit graded N400 amplitudes across the four types of constructions,increasing from literal expressions(Degree Adverb+Adjective) to anomalous expressions(Degree Adverb+Collocationally Unacceptable Noun),with non-differentiated intermittent presence of two kinds of metonymic expressions('Degree Adverb+Class-ambiguous Word'and'Degree Adverb+Collocationally Acceptable Noun').These findings are consistent with previous studies in which the N400 indicated contextual incongruity and semantic expectancy,and also with those studies in which the N400 suggested the difficulty in understanding figurative expressions.Thus,it is assumed that the graded N400 amplitudes in the three 'Degree Adverb+Noun'constructions are due to their differences in metonymicity,and it is conclud-ed that the CATEGORY FOR PROPERTY metonymy can well account for differences in acceptability among these constructions.

关 键 词：熟语性 事件相关电位 转喻 构式 神经语言学 

分 类 号：H043[语言文字—语言学]