통사적 복잡성 가설의 반례

• 영문명: Counter-evidence of Syntactic Complexity
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 박순혁(Soonhyuck Park)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제85호, 191~207쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

  The role of syntax is to expand utterances by combining them via recursive mechanisms or to shorten outputs by deleting redundant elements. But, if our goal is to be understood, we should use the simplest syntactic arrangement possible, keeping our utterances easy and short. It might be that the more we elaborate on a sentence, the longer and more complicated it gets. When this happens, the more there is for us to hold in short-term memory, such that more complexity is meant to incur greater comprehensibility. Interestingly, however, a wider variety of structures under test show that there is no simple correlation between syntactic complexity and parsing difficulty. In this paper, we examine two syntactic processes, VP deletion and scrambling, to see how one is related to the other in parsing. Given the syntactic complexity hypothesis, it is expected that the reading time will be the longest when a sentence implemented both processes. Our experiment, however, shows that the reading time declines sharply when scrambling is added to VP deletion. This indicates that parsing is not directly related to the degree of complexity, but possibly to the types of transformations involved. It further implies that to make a sentence syntactically more complex can be a way of having economy satisfied when we relax the notion of economy to performance.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가는 말
Ⅱ. 통사적 운용과 독해 시간
Ⅲ. 통사적 복잡성
Ⅳ. 언어 수행과 효율성
Ⅴ. 맺음말
참고문헌
Abstract

키워드

통사적 복잡성 원거리 의존성 문법 분석 독해 시간 경제성 syntactic complexity long-distance dependencies parsing reading time economy