英语名词短语中心成分的认知入场研究的中期报告Abstract摘要Thismid-termreportpresentsthecurrentprogressofaresearchprojectaimingtoinvestigatethecognitiveprocessesinvolvedinidentifyingthecenterconstituentsofEnglishnounphrases.Thestudyuseseye-trackingtechnologytomeasuretheprocessingtimeandfixationdurationonvariouspartsofatargetsentence,aswellasquestionnairesandinterviewstocollectparticipants’understandingandjudgmentsaboutthesentencestructureandmeaning.Thepreliminaryanalysisofdatasuggeststhattheidentificationofthecenterconstituentsinnounphrasesinvolvesbothtop-downandbottom-upprocessing,andthatthevariabilityincenterconstituentidentificationisinfluencedbydifferentfactors,suchassyntacticcomplexityandsemanticambiguity.Furtheranalysisandexperimentsareplannedtogainamorecomprehensiveunderstandingofthisphenomenon.本中期报告介绍了一个研究项目的当前进展，旨在探究英语名词短语中心要素识别涉及的认知过程。该研究使用眼动技术来测量目标句子不同部分的处理时间和注视持续时间，以及问卷和访谈来收集参与者对句子结构和含义的理解和判断。初步的数据分析表明，名词短语中心要素的识别涉及自上而下和自下而上的加工，而中心要素识别的变异性受到不同因素的影响，如语法复杂性和语义歧义性。进一步的分析和实验计划获得更全面的了解这一现象。Introduction引言Nounphrases(NPs)arecommonsentenceconstituentsinEnglishsentences,consistingofanounastheheadwordandvariousmodifiersthathelptospecifythemeaningofthenoun.TheidentificationofthecenterconstituentinaNPiscrucialforunderstandingthemeaningofasentence,asitreflectsthemostimportantinformationconveyedbythesentence.However,identifyingthecenterconstituentsinNPscanbechallengingforbothnativespeakersandforeignlanguagelearnersduetothegrammaticalcomplexityandsyntacticambiguityofthelanguage(GómezGonzález,2013;Cook,2015).Inthisproject,weaimtoinvestigatethecognitiveprocessesinvolvedinidentifyingthecenterconstituentsofEnglishNPs,particularlyfocusingontheroleoftop-downandbottom-upprocessinginthistask.Top-downprocessingreferstotheuseofpriorknowledgeandexpectationstointerpretincominginformation,whilebottom-upprocessingreferstotheanalysisofindividualfeaturesandpropertiesofincominginformationtoconstructacoherentperceptualexperience(Clark,2016).WehypothesizethattheidentificationofcenterconstituentsinNPsinvolves