Maternal Socioeconomic Status Influences the Range of Expectations During Language Comprehension in Adulthood.
Maternal Socioeconomic Status Influences the Range of Expectations During Language Comprehension in Adulthood.
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母亲的社会经济地位影响成年后语言理解的期望范围。
DOI：
10.1111/cogs.12488
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Borovsky,Arielle
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作者：
Troyer,Melissa;Borovsky,Arielle
在婴儿期，母亲的社会经济地位（SES）与真实的时间语言处理技能有关，但这种关系是否（如果是，如何）进入成年期尚不清楚。我们探讨了母亲SES在大学年龄的成年人的眼动跟踪，口语句子理解任务使用视觉世界范式的影响。当句子以高度合理的预期目标名词（Exp。1），较高的SES与更大的可能性，考虑替代的结局有关的行动的句子。此外，对于意想不到的句子结尾（Exp。2），来自社会经济地位较高背景的人对结局是否与行动相关（合理）或不相关（不可信）很敏感，这表明合理的结局有好处。来自社会经济地位较低背景的人没有表现出这种优势。这表明母亲SES可以影响句子处理的动态，即使在成年期，处理意想不到的内容的后果。这些发现强调了早期词汇经验对成人语言技能的重要性。
In infancy, maternal socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with real‐time language processing skills, but whether or not (and if so, how) this relationship carries into adulthood is unknown. We explored the effects of maternal SES in college‐aged adults on eye‐tracked, spoken sentence comprehension tasks using the visual world paradigm. When sentences ended in highly plausible, expected target nouns (Exp. 1), higher SES was associated with a greater likelihood of considering alternative endings related to the action of the sentence. Moreover, for unexpected sentence endings (Exp. 2), individuals from higher SES backgrounds were sensitive to whether the ending was action‐related (plausible) or unrelated (implausible), showing a benefit for plausible endings. Individuals from lower SES backgrounds did not show this advantage. This suggests maternal SES can influence the dynamics of sentence processing even in adulthood, with consequences for processing unexpected content. These findings highlight the importance of early lexical experience for adult language skills.