The role of verbs in sentence production

Data are from an experiment to investigate the role of verbs in sentence production. Experiment employed a simple sentence elicitation technique: 3 pictures (one of a person, one of an action, and one of an object) were displayed and formed the basis for the expected sentence that would consist of a subject (on the basis of the person image), verb (on the basis of the action image), and verbal modifier (on the basis of the object image). The images were presented in different temporal configurations to determine whether the time taken to start uttering the subject of a sentence was contingent on having access to information about the action that would determine verb selection. There were 6 possible orders of presentation: Person-Action-Object, Person-Object-Action, Action-Person-Object, Action-Object-Person, Object-Person-Action, Object-Action-Person. The experiment was implemented using EPrime v2. The excel file contains the merged output of EPrime, the transcribed elicited sentences, the measured onset times to different sentence constituents (and the latencies with respect to other fixed temporal sign posts such as item onset, or onset of the different images composing the item), and the coding of responses in terms of their validity.

本数据集源自一项探究动词在语句生成过程中作用的实验。实验采用简易的语句诱发范式：向被试呈现三张图片（分别对应人物、动作与客体），以此作为构建目标语句的基础——目标语句将由主语（基于人物图片）、动词（基于动作图片）以及动词修饰语（基于客体图片）构成。实验通过设置不同的图片时间呈现顺序，旨在探究被试启动语句主语的时长，是否依赖于用于确定动词选择的动作信息的获取情况。本次实验共包含6种可选的图片呈现顺序：人物-动作-客体、人物-客体-动作、动作-人物-客体、动作-客体-人物、客体-人物-动作、客体-动作-人物。本实验通过EPrime v2软件实现。实验对应的Excel文件包含以下内容：EPrime的合并输出结果、转录后的诱发语句、不同语句成分的测量启动时长（以及相对于其他固定时间标记点的反应时，例如项目启动时刻或组成该项目的各图片的呈现时刻），以及基于反应有效性的编码结果。