چکیده:
This study investigates the processing of Persian interrogatives. The questions is the cognitive load during the processing of types of interrogatives. Which type of interrogatives is processed faster than the others and why? The theoretical framework is structuralism and cross modal view point. The corpus contained 120 interrogative sentences besides 120 Persian words and non-words. Cross-modal lexical decision has been used by the use of special software estimating reaction time of subjects. Independent variable is the type of interrogative and the dependent variable is subjectsˈ reaction times to the lexical decision task. 25 students of universities aged 18-30 participated in this study classified into two groups of male and female. The first experiment show that one single moved wh-questions in complex sentences manifested in sentences like “chi-yā ro fek mikoni/?u fardā biyāre?” (What do you think he will bring?) is processed sooner than dissociated coordinated interrogatives contained in complex sentences and also optional interrogatives manifested in complex sentences . This shows that topicalization of the wh- word will lead to the ease of processing. The independent variable of participants̓ gender showed to be effective in the first experiment for the results showed that women are faster in reaction times than men. The second experiment results showed that the independent variable of syntactic structure (either simple or complex) is to be ineffective both across men and women. The findings of current investigation can be used to manage better lesson plans and curriculum design based on objective psycholinguistic findings.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Auditory perception of Persian interrogative structures with a psycholinguistic approach and its application in Persian language teaching (research) 1 Masoumeh Mehrabi Corresponding author, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Ayatollah Borujerdi University Behrouz Mahmoudi Bakhtiari 2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran 3 Hengameh Vaezi Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English Language Teaching, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch Abstract The present research is dedicated to the processing of Persian interrogative structures.
The research method is cross-modal lexical decision, in which the processing of sentences containing various types of interrogative structures was investigated using software to measure reaction time to the thousandth of a second.
The first test shows that among twelve types of Persian interrogative structures, the only type that has a significant difference from the other types is the interrogative structures containing a single moved wh-word in complex sentences (such as "What do you think he will bring tomorrow?"), which has a lower lexical decision task reaction time compared to discontinuous coordinate structures in complex sentences and also selective interrogative structures in complex sentences, and the movement of the wh-word is accompanied by ease of processing.
Introduction Persian is a language in which various types of interrogative structures can be recognized, which include: yes-no questions, alternative questions, and wh-questions, each of which has subcategories of its own and performs differently depending on whether they are used in simple or complex sentences.
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