题 目：It's there whether or not you hear it: Syntactic representation of missing arguments
(无论你是否听到它都在那：题元丢失下的句法表征现象)
主讲人：Holly Branigan 教授
时 间：2014年11月19日（星期三）下午3:00-5:00
地 点：心理学院201会议室
主讲人简介：
Holly Branigan教授，英国爱丁堡大学心理系教授，是心理语言学研究领域的知名专家。Branigian教授的研究主要集中在单语和双语者语言产生过程的认知机制，语言交互包括人与人之间、人与计算机之间交互的认知机制等研究领域。至今已在Trends in Cognitive Science, Cognition, Psychological Science, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Developmental Science等国际权威学术期刊发表论文超过80篇，并担任心理语言学领域著名期刊如Journal of Memory and Language, Language Acquisition, Language and Linguistics Compass的编委工作。由于Branigan教授在心理语言学的杰出贡献，获得由英国科学院颁发的勒伍豪信托高级研究奖（British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow，2014-2015）。
讲座摘要：
Any complete model of language processing must specify not only the processes that are involved, but also the relevant representations. However, there has been relatively little experimental research on the nature of syntactic representations. In this talk, I will consider how syntactic representation can be studied experimentally using structural priming paradigms, allowing us to investigate experimentally questions that have not been resolved using traditional theoretical linguistic methods. I will present two structural priming experiments that investigate how people represent sentences involving missing arguments in Mandarin, contrasting a "syntactically-represented" account whereby people postulate a syntactic representation for the missing argument, with a "syntactically-non-represented" account whereby people represent a missing argument semantically but do not postulate any syntactic representation for it. The results suggest that people construct the same constituent structure for missing-argument sentences and full-form sentences, in accord with the syntactically-represented account. I will discuss the implications for syntactic representations in language processing.