关键词: 阅读理解, 高级目标推理, 推理

Abstract: The minimalist hypothesis and the constructionist theory are well-known in the domain of inferences. During the comprehension of narrative text, the constructionist theory suggests that the superordinate goal inference is generated on-line and the minimalist hypothesis thinks it is not generated. In order to examine the superordinate goal inference in reading, the author used lexical decision task, naming and two time intervals between the last line of text and the target word(250ms and 500ms). The materials include local and global coherent texts. The results show that the superordinate goal inference is constructed on-line in reading, which support the constructionist theory.

Key words: reading comprehension, superordinate goal inference, inference