The effects of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production
The effects of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2012.04.003
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Bresnan, Joan
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作者：
Kuperman, Victor;Bresnan, Joan
在一系列的七项研究中，本文考察了英语与格交替(把书给男孩/男孩给书)自发言语产生的声学特征作为交替结构选择概率的函数。对声音持续时间的概率影响在选择点(第一个使说话者选择其中一个选项的词)的声音信号中观察到，在选择点之前，而不是在选择点之后。这些发现支持与信息平滑理论和基于可用性的言语产生模式相一致的产生机制的同时运行：它们与一些相互竞争的理论解释不相容。最后，我们概述了多模型推理的统计建模过程，以解决我们的多个工作假设和概率的解释作用这一终极问题。(C)2012 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
In a series of seven studies, this paper examines acoustic characteristics of the spontaneous speech production of the English dative alternation (gave the book to the boy/ the boy the book) as a function of the probability of the choice between alternating constructions. Probabilistic effects on the acoustic duration were observed in the acoustic signal at the choice point (the first word that commits the speaker to one of the alternatives), before the choice point, but not after the choice point. These findings speak in favor of the simultaneous operation of production mechanisms consistent with both information-smoothing theories and availability-based models of speech production: they are incompatible with a number of competing theoretical accounts. Finally, we outline the statistical modeling procedure of multimodel inference suitable for addressing our multiple working hypotheses and the ultimate question of the explanatory role of probability. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.