Abstract: This research is an attempt to probe into the priming effect of the grammatical structure in the production of the four-character Chinese idiom. A model of improved instantaneous memory is adopted with 60 university students majoring in Chinese language as subjects. The results suggest that the whether or not there is a similarity in the morpheme structure between the priming idiom and the target idiom, the grammatical priming effect exists when their move structure are the same. The findings of this research primarily indicate that there also exists a process of grammatical production and selection in the relatively solidified-structured four-character Chinese idiom and that this process of grammatical production and selection stems mainly from the move structure of the Chinese idioms. The production of the grammatical structure is an abstract process.

Key words: Chinese idioms, language production, priming of grammatical structure, morpheme structure, move structure

摘要： 以60名汉语言专业本科生为被试，采用改进后的瞬时回忆范式，探讨汉语四字格成语产生中的语法结构启动效应。结果表明，无论启动成语和目标成语的语素结构是否相同，只要两者语步结构相同，就会在汉语成语产生中出现语法结构启动效应。本结果初步表明，在结构较为凝固的汉语四字格成语产生过程中也存在着语法生成与选择过程，这种语法生成与选择过程主要来自汉语成语的语步结构，是一种抽象的语法结构的生成。

关键词: 汉语成语, 言语产生, 语法结构启动, 语素结构, 语步结构