The Processing Of Chinese Negative Sentences In Elementary School Children

As an important sentence pattern,negative sentences are more complicated to understand than positive sentences.This has also become one of the important topics in the study of language development.However,with the development of the times,the progress of science and technology,and the upsurge of interdisciplinary research,nowadays the research of negative sentences has been widely involved in cognitive neuroscience,contemporary psychology and other fields,especially in the psychological community,there are many theories to explain the psychological processing of negative sentences,especially the two-step simulation hypothesis has become a hot topic of research and controversy in recent years.This greatly strengthens the close relationship between disciplines,further deepens our exploration of human language,and further reveals how the rich inner world of human is operated and controlled.Primary school education stage is an important stage of language development.How to better help primary school children better understand negative sentences?How do teachers teach more effective primary school children to understand negative sentences? How to help children with learning difficulties to master and understand the connotation and significance of negative sentences effectively? These problems have also become a topic of concern for teachers in Chinese teaching.Therefore,this study explores the psychological processing of Chinese negative sentences in primary school children from a psychological perspective.Specific research through two experiments respectively examined the primary school children’s Chinese negative sentence "no" and "not" psychological processing process,using the sentence-picture consistent paradigm,language as the Chinese language,the experimental materials are independent negative sentences containing either meaning or not,the measured indicators are the response time and correct rate of judging whether the sentences and pictures are consistent.The purpose of this study was to examine whether the two-step simulation hypothesis theory can be usedto explain the mental processing of negative sentences in primary school children whose mother tongue is Chinese during the three time intervals of 250 ms,750ms and1500 ms.The results showed that the psychological processing process of the negative sentences "no" and "not" in primary school children,whether in primary school,middle-grade children or high-grade children,began to simulate the real situation of objective things at a time interval of 250 ms.It is inconsistent with the two-step simulation hypothesis theory,but supports the one-step simulation hypothesis.At the same time,the reason why the psychological processing time of negative sentences is longer than that of affirmative sentences can also be deduced and conceived from the theory of limited mental processing resources.