The Chinese Word Recognition The Verb Scene Information Is Automatically Activated

Verbs play a very essential role in language comprehension. Verbs describing the crucial event or act are the center of both sentences and situational information. Every event is presented around actions and all relations are concerned with actions. Besides the morphological, phonological and semantic information, verbs involve some special information which depicts an event or a behavior, for example, the person who does it, the participant of an action, the tool which is needed to finish an action and the place where the action happens. On the basis of the previous researches this paper further discusses how verbs activate the situational information in language comprehension. Four experiments are contained as followed.In the first experiment, the priming of verbs to the agents in the scenes was explored. Exactly, it investigated the effect of the verb Yifu's marks and the verb and noun's semantic correlation to the agents in the verb priming scenes in different SOA condition. The results showed that reaction time of the condition with Yifu marks was shorter than the one without Yifu marks or with contradict Yifu marks, and reaction time was shorter when the verbs and nouns were related than the one when without correlation. In the parts of SOA, reaction time was all shorter when SOA was 500ms than the one when SOA was 100ms or 250ms in all conditions.In the second experiment, the priming of verbs to the objects in the scenes was explored. Exactly, it investigated the effect of the verb and noun's semantic correlation to the objects in the verb priming scenes in different SOA condition. The results showed that when the priming words were semantic-related to the target words, reaction time was shorter. Reaction time was shorter when SOA was 500ms than the one when SOA was 250ms.In the third experiment, the priming of verbs to the tools in the scenes was explored. Exactly, it investigated the effect of the verb Yifu's mark and the verb and noun's semantic correlation to the tools in the verb priming scenes in different SOA condition. The results showed that the effect of the verb Yifu's marks was obvious. Reaction time of the condition with Yifu marks was shorter than the one without Yifu marks, which supported that Yifu affects words cognition. What's more, reaction time was shorter when the priming words were semantic-related to the target words.In the fourth experiment, the priming of verbs to the places in the scenes was explored. Exactly, it investigated the effect of the verb Yifu's mark and the verb and noun's semantic correlation to the places in the verb priming scenes in different SOA condition. The results were consistent with the former three experiments, that is, reaction time of the condition with Yifu marks was shorter than the one without Yifu marks and reaction time was shorter when the verbs and nouns were related than the one when without correlation. Reaction time was shorter when SOA was 500ms than the one when SOA was 100ms or 250ms.The whole study indicated that: (1) the verb is an important part of the scene information. When the verb was cognized, information of other parts of the scene was activated, such as the agent, the object, the tool or the place. When the scene information the verb represented was related to the noun followed, reaction time was shorter. Conversely, reaction time was longer.(2) the verb Yifu's mark affects the general cognition of the verb. The verb with Yifu mark accelerated or restrained the target noun. When Yifu represented a related verb with the noun followed, it accelerated the cognition of the target noun. Conversely, when Yifu represented an unrelated verb with the noun followed, it restrained the cognition of the target noun.(3) SOA affects the word cognition. Long SOA accelerated the word cognition.