关键词: 篇章阅读理解, 先行信息通达, 窗口阅读, 精细阐述

Abstract: Previous studies found that the degree of elaboration was a more important factor that affected the processing of antecedent reference as compare with the relationship of antecedent with current information. Elaborated inappropriate antecedents could be accessed more quickly than non-elaborated appropriate ones. Using an on-line window display technique, the present study further investigated whether such activation mode would change in long ISI. The reading materials were a set of misinformation passages that included two kinds of antecedents, which were informed appropriately or inappropriately, with inappropriate antecedents receiving additional elaboration. Participants read passages word by word at their own pace and named the probes that were either appropriate or inappropriate anaphoric referents. The delay between anaphor offset and probe onset was varied. The result demonstrated that at a long delay(1500ms), the pattern of the naming RT was reversed, which elaborated inappropriate antecedents accessed more slowly than non-elaborated appropriate ones. Such changing was occurred because of the increasing activation of the appropriate information.

Key words: discourse comprehension, access of antecedent information, window display technique, elaboration